Routes to language : studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman / edited by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.
| Other author | Bowerman, Melissa. |
| Other author | Mueller-Gathercole, Virginia C. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Psychology Press, ©2009. |
| Description | xxx, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2007041886 |
| ISBN | 9781841697161 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1841697168 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | P 118 .R687 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |