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The Lexicon in Acquisition
The Lexicon in Acquisition, Eve Clark argues for the centrality of the lexicon in language and language acquisition. She looks at the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings, and how they map their meanings onto forms. Starting with children's emerging knowledge of , The Lexicon in Acquisition has a rating of 4 stars
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The Lexicon in Acquisition, Eve Clark argues for the centrality of the lexicon in language and language acquisition. She looks at the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings, and how they map their meanings onto forms. Starting with children's emerging knowledge of , The Lexicon in Acquisition
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  • The Lexicon in Acquisition
  • Written by author Eve V. Clark
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, February 1995
  • Eve Clark argues for the centrality of the lexicon in language and language acquisition. She looks at the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings, and how they map their meanings onto forms. Starting with children's emerging knowledge of
  • Using data from many languages, this book looks at the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings.
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1The lexicon: words old and new1
The lexicon2
Acquiring a lexicon13
2Early lexical development21
First words22
Early words and semantic fields28
First meanings32
Word class and word structure38
3The mapping problem43
Ontological categories43
Conceptual constraints49
Lexical constraints62
4Conventionality and contrast67
Conventionality67
Contrast69
5Pragmatic principles and acquisition84
Conventionality84
Contrast90
Morphology and allomorphy102
6Transparency and simplicity109
Complex words109
Types of mapping111
Transparency of meaning115
Simplicity of form119
7Productivity126
Structure-based models of productivity127
Norm-based models of productivity132
Function-based models of productivity133
Contemporary preferences135
Productivity in acquisition137
8Words for things143
English143
Other Germanic languages151
9More words for things160
Romance160
Slavic165
Two more languages169
10Words for agents and instruments177
English178
Icelandic182
Hebrew186
French and Italian190
11Words for actions198
New verbs in English198
Other Germanic languages205
Romance and Slavic209
Two more languages213
12Words for undoing actions219
Undoing in English220
Undoing in German229
Undoing in other languages234
13Issues for acquisition241
Lexical acquisition241
Production does not equal comprehension245
Representing linguistic knowledge251
Structure versus process254
Coda259
Bibliography260
Index of names293
Index of subjects299


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