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Author:

Naigles, Letitia R.

Title:

Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-N diary study / Letitia R. Naigles, Erika Hoff, and Donna Vear ; with commentary by Michael Tomasello ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 143 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Language acquisition--Case studies.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb--Case studies.
Cognitive grammar--Case studies.
Child development--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Hoff, Erika, 1951-
Vear, Donna.
Tomasello, Michael.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction -- Presenting the diary method -- A general description of early verb growth and use -- Pragmatic and semantic flexibility in early verb use -- Productivity and grammatical flexibility in early verb use -- Differences in early verb growth and use as a function of developmental period, child, and verb -- General discussion -- Commentary. Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use / Michael Tomasello and Silke Brandt -- Learning from infants' first verbs / Sandra R. Waxman -- Early verb learners : creative or not? / Jane B. Childers.

Series:

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 293, vol. 74, no. 2, 2009

OCLC:

(OCoLC)429340177

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)