Semantics in Language Acquisition (Trends in Language Acquisition Research) 1st Edition by Kristen Syrett 9027263604 9789027263605

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• ISBN 10: 9027263604
• ISBN 13: 9789027263605
• Author:  Kristen Syrett; Sudha Arunachalam

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants’ initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical content and inferences on language meaning (semantics and pragmatics), the papers in this volume introduce the reader to the variety of ways in which children come to realize that semantic content is encoded in word meaning (for example, in the event semantics of the verbal domain or the scope of logical operators), and at the level of the sentence, which requires the composition of semantic meaning. The authors represent some of the most established and promising researchers in this domain, demonstrating collective expertise in a range of methodologies and topics relevant to the acquisition of semantics. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for students and faculty, and junior and seasoned researchers alike.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. The historical emergence and current study of semantics in acquisition
Chapter 2. Word meanings and semantic domains in acquisition
Chapter 3. The influence of linguistic temporal organization on children’s understanding of temporal terms and concepts
Chapter 4. Semantic features of early verb vocabularies
Chapter 5. On the acquisition of event culmination
Chapter 6. Telicity in typical and impaired acquisition
Chapter 7. Not all subjects are agents: Transitivity and meaning in early language comprehension
Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions: A novel construction learning study
Chapter 9. The labeling problem in syntactic bootstrapping: Main clause syntax in the acquisition of propositional attitude verbs
Chapter 10. Perspectives on truth: The case of language and false belief reasoning
Chapter 11. The meaning of question words in statements in child Mandarin
Chapter 12. Overt, covert, and clandestine operations: Ambiguity and ellipsis in acquisitio
Chapter 13. Developmental insights into gappy phenomena: Comparing presupposition, implicature
Chapter 14. Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoning
Chapter 15. The acquisition path of near-reflexivity

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