Introduction -- Early verb learners : creative or not? / 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 -- Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use / Jane B. Childers. Learning from infants' first verbs / Sandra R. Waxman -- Early verb learners : creative or not? / Jane B. Childers.
Summary:
Tests competing hypotheses of the achievement of flexibility and some kinds of productivity against data on children's first uses of their first-acquired verbs. From publisher description.
Series:
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 293, vol. 74, no. 2, 2009
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