First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development

di Michael Tomasello (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 1992

During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author argues persuasively that the child's earliest grammatical organization is verb-specific (the Verb Island hypothesis). He argues further that early language is acquired by means of very general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning. The richness of the database and the analytical tools used make First Verbs a particularly useful and important book for developmental psychologists, linguists, language development researchers and speech pathologists.

• Autore: Michael Tomasello
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 1992
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 384 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 162 mm
• Peso: 730 gr.
• EAN: 9780521374965

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