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Semantics in Acquisition

  • Veerle van Geenhoven
Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The development of the syntax-semantics interface

    1. ‘Mismatches’ of Form and Interpretation
      Greg Carlson
      Pages 19-36
    2. Watching Noun Phrases Emerge: Seeking Compositionality
      Tom Roeper
      Pages 37-64
    3. Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Complement Tense
      Ayumi Matsuo
      Pages 65-88

  3. Acquiring Universal Quantification

    1. Everybody Knows
      Luisa Meroni, Andrea Gualmini, Stephen Crain
      Pages 89-114
    2. The Effect of Context on Children'S Interpretations of Universally Quantified Sentences
      Kenneth F Drozd, Erik van Loosbroek
      Pages 115-140
    3. Structure and Meaning in the Acquisition of Scope
      Julien Musolino
      Pages 141-166

  4. Time in the language of a learner

    1. Time for Children: An Integrated Stage Model of Aspect and Tense
      Veerle Van Geenhoven
      Pages 167-192
    2. State Change and Temporal Reference in Inuktitut Child Language
      Mary Swift
      Pages 193-218
    3. Temporal Adverbials and Early Tense and Aspect Markers in the Acquisition of Dutch
      Marianne Starren
      Pages 219-244

  5. Finiteness and its development

    1. On Finiteness
      Wolfgang Klein
      Pages 245-272
    2. Functions of Finiteness in Child Language
      Petra Gretsch
      Pages 273-302

  6. Focus particles in child language

    1. Additive Particles and Scope Marking in Child German
      Ulrike Nederstigt
      Pages 303-328
    2. (Un)Stressed ook in Child Dutch
      Wenda Bergsma
      Pages 329-348
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 349-358
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About this book

Introduction

This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The 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.

Keywords

Acquisition Psycholinguist Syntax Temporal aspect Tense language acquisition semantic semantic research semantics

Editors and affiliations

  • Veerle van Geenhoven
    • 1
  1. 1.Radboud UniversiteitThe Netherlands

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