Semantics in language acquisition / / edited by Kristen Syrett, Sudha Arunachalam.

• Superior document: Trends in language acquisition research ; Volume 24
• TeilnehmendeR: Syrett, Kristen,; Arunachalam, Sudha,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in language acquisition research ; Volume 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 pages).

Table of Contents

The historical emergence and current study of semantics in acquisition / Kristen Syrett -- Word meanings and semantic domains in acquisition / Eve V. Clark -- The influence of linguistic temporal organization on children's understanding of temporal terms and concepts / Laura Wagner -- Semantic features of early verb vocabularies / Sabrina Horvath, Leslie Rescorla and Sudha Arunachalam -- On the acquisition of event culmination / Angeliek van Hout -- Telicity in typical and impaired acquisition / Petra Schulz -- Not all subjects are agents : transitivity and meaning in early language comprehension / Rose M. Scott, Yael Gertner and Cynthia Fisher -- Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions : a novel construction learning study / Ben Ambridge, Micah B. Goldwater and Elena V.M. Lieven -- The labeling problem in syntactic bootstrapping : main clause syntax in the acquisition of propositional attitude verbs / Aaron Steven White, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz -- Perspectives on truth : the case of language and false belief reasoning / Jill de Villiers -- The meaning of question words in statements in child mandarin / Stephen Crain and Peng Zhou -- Overt, covert, and clandestine operations : ambiguity and ellipsis in acquisition / Kristen Syrett -- Developmental insights into gappy phenomena : comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness / Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill, Jeremy Zehr, Jacopo Romoli and Florian Schwarz -- Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoning / David Barner, Lara K. Hochstein, Miriam P. Rubenson and Alan Bale -- The acquisition path of near-reflexivity / Valentina Brunetto and Tom Roeper.