Routes to language : studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman /: studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.
• Other Names: Bowerman, Melissa; Mueller-Gathercole, Virginia C
• Contents: Learning words -- Personal tribute / Dedre Gentner -- Early acquisition of nouns and verbs : evidence from Navajo / Dedre Gentner and Lera Boroditsky -- Personal tribute / Esther Dromi -- Old data, new eyes : theories on word meaning acquisition / Esther Dromi -- Crosslinguistic patterning and acquisition of lexical semantics -- Personal tribute / Ruth A. Berman -- Personal tribute / Angelika Wittek -- Personal tribute / Lourdes de León -- Mayan semantics in early lexical development : the case of the Tzotzil verbs for 'eating' and 'falling down' / Lourdes de León -- Personal tribute / Penelope Brown and Bhuvana Narasimhan -- Getting the INSIDE story : learning to express containment in Tzeltal and Hindi / Bhuvana Narasimhan and Penelope Brown -- Crosslinguistic patterning and events, paths, and causes -- Personal tribute / Leonard Talmy -- Personal tribute / Jidong Chen -- Personal tribute / William Croft -- Aspectual and causal structure in event representations / William Croft -- Personal tribute / Soonja Choi -- Typological differences in syntactic expressions of path and causation / Soonja Choi -- Personal tribute / Dan I. Slobin -- Relation between paths of motion and paths of vision : a crosslinguistic and developmental exploration / Dan I. Slobin -- Influences on development -- Personal tribute / Ronald P. Schaefer -- Personal tribute / Martha Crago -- Personal tribute / Eve V. Clark -- What shapes children's language? Child-directed speech, conventionality, and the process of acquisition / Eve V. Clark -- Personal tribute / Ping Li -- Meaning in acquisition : semantic structure, lexical organization, and crosslinguistic variation / Ping Li -- Personal tribute / Mabel Rice -- Language acquisition lessons from children with specific language impairment : revisiting the discovery of latent structures / Mabel L. Rice -- Personal tribute / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole -- "It was so much fun. It was 20 fun!" : cognitive and linguistic invitations to the development of scalar predicates / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (488 pages)
• Subjects: 401/.93; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies; Language acquisition
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136873959; 1136873953
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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