Semantics in Acquisition

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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: van Geenhoven, Veerle (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The development of the syntax-semantics interface
  • ‘Mismatches’ of Form and Interpretation
  • Watching Noun Phrases Emerge: Seeking Compositionality
  • Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Complement Tense
  • Acquiring Universal Quantification
  • Everybody Knows
  • The Effect of Context on Children'S Interpretations of Universally Quantified Sentences
  • Structure and Meaning in the Acquisition of Scope
  • Time in the language of a learner
  • Time for Children: An Integrated Stage Model of Aspect and Tense
  • State Change and Temporal Reference in Inuktitut Child Language
  • Temporal Adverbials and Early Tense and Aspect Markers in the Acquisition of Dutch
  • Finiteness and its development
  • On Finiteness
  • Functions of Finiteness in Child Language
  • Focus particles in child language
  • Additive Particles and Scope Marking in Child German
  • (Un)Stressed ook in Child Dutch