Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : : A case study of German child language / / Angelika Wittek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Wittek, Angelika,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Other title: i-iv --; Contents --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn’t --; Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis --; Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate --; Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning --; Chapter 6. Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis --; Chapter 7. Summary: The status of the endstate in children’s semantic representations of change-of-state verbs --; Appendices --; Notes --; References --; Subject index --; Author index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110907988; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4248
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110907988
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Angelika Wittek.

Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.