1st Edition
Language Development Volume 1: Syntax and Semantics
Edited By S. A. Kuczaj, II
Copyright 1981
510 Pages
by
Psychology Press
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Preface, 1. Theory and Method in Child-Language Research: Are We Assuming Too Much?, 2. On the Nature of Syntactic Development, 3. Basic Syntactic Processes, 4. On the Importance of Syntax and the Logical Use of Evidence in Language Acquisition, 5. Experimental Gambits in the Service of Language Acquisition Theory: From the Fiffin Project to Operation Input Swap, 6. The Development of Sentence Coordination, 7. Relative Acquisition, 8. Towards a Theory of Substantive Word-Meaning Acquisition, 9. Distinguishing Between Prototypes: The Early Acquisition of the Meaning of Object Names, 10. Theoretical Issues in Semantic Development, 11. Empiricism and learning to Mean, 12. A Functional Analysis of Meaning, 13. Beyond the Definition Given: On the Growth of Connotation, 14. Acquisition of Mental Verbs and the Concept of Mind, Author Index, Subject Index
Biography
S.A. Kuczaj II,
