Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs By Wittek, Angelika

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Language acquisition

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Wordery

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De gruyter

Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : De Gruyter Mouton : 9783110173048 : 3110173042 : 26 Jun 2002 : Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.

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