Semantics in Acquisition (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics)

✍ Scribed by VEERLE VAN GEENHOVEN (Editor)

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few. The volume creates a theoretical as well as an empirical bridge between semantic research on the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition studies on the other.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 7
ACQUISITION AND INTERPRETATION: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION......Page 9
‘MISMATCHES’ OF FORM AND INTERPRETATION......Page 27
WATCHING NOUN PHRASES EMERGE: SEEKING COMPOSITIONALITY......Page 45
CROSS-LINGUISTIC ACQUISITION OF COMPLEMENT TENSE......Page 73
EVERYBODY KNOWS......Page 97
THE EFFECT OF CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S INTERPRETATIONS OF UNIVERSALLY QUANTIFIED SENTENCES......Page 123
STRUCTURE AND MEANING IN THE ACQUISITION OF SCOPE......Page 149
TIME FOR CHILDREN: AN INTEGRATED STAGE MODEL OF ASPECT AND TENSE......Page 175
STATE CHANGE AND TEMPORAL REFERENCE IN INUKTITUT CHILD LANGUAGE......Page 201
TEMPORAL ADVERBIALS AND EARLY TENSE AND ASPECT MARKERS IN THE ACQUISITION OF DUTCH......Page 227
ON FINITENESS......Page 253
FUNCTIONS OF FINITENESS IN CHILD LANGUAGE......Page 281
ADDITIVE PARTICLES AND SCOPE MARKING IN CHILD GERMAN......Page 311
(UN)STRESSED OOK IN CHILD DUTCH......Page 337
C......Page 357
E......Page 358
I......Page 359
O......Page 360
S......Page 361
T......Page 362
Y......Page 363

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Семантика;