Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008-10, Vol.12 (10), p.397-403
2008
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- Titel
- How toddlers begin to learn verbs
- Ist Teil von
- Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008-10, Vol.12 (10), p.397-403
- Ort / Verlag
- London: Elsevier Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2008
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- Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals
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- Any theory of language must account for how children learn verbs, the gateway to grammar. Yet verbs can be difficult to learn. Building on Gentner's ‘natural partitions hypothesis’ we suggest that, to learn a verb, infants must conceptualize components of events and map verbs in the ambient language onto those components. Although toddlers detect and categorize at least some of the conceptual underpinnings of verb categories, the mapping of verbs onto these representations is not transparent. Mapping is a difficult problem in its own right. The Emergentist Coalition Model that has been used to explain noun learning also begins to explain how children move from perceptual to social and then to linguistic information to link verbs to actions and events.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1364-6613eISSN: 1879-307XDOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.003Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_69592328
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- –
- Schlagworte
- Biological and medical sciences, Child, Child development, Child Language, Child, Preschool, Concept Formation, Developmental psychology, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Humans, Imitative Behavior, Language, Models, Psychological, Neurology, Newborn. Infant, Psychiatry, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Psychology. Psychophysiology, Verbal Learning - physiology