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During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author argues persuasively that the child's earliest grammatical organization is verb-specific (the Verb Island hypothesis). He argues further that early language is acquired by means of very general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning. The richness of the database and the analytical tools used make First Verbs a particularly useful and important book for developmental psychologists, linguists, language development researchers and speech pathologists.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Philosophy of language

• Full title: First Verbs
• Author: Michael Tomasello
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780521034517
• ISBN: 0521034515
• ID: 04089871
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 600 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 228 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2006

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