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Action Meets Word: How children learn verbs

Kathryn A. Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta M. Golinkoff

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780195170009

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.001.0001

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Influences of Object Knowledge on the Acquisition of Verbs in English and Japanese

Chapter:
(p. 499 ) 19 Influences of Object Knowledge on the Acquisition of Verbs in English and Japanese
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Action Meets Word
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Alan W. Kersten

Linda B. Smith (Contributor Webpage)

Hanako Yoshida

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0020

This chapter reviews the evidence for an influence of object knowledge on verb learning. It discusses whether object knowledge influences the learning of all verbs, or only certain types of verbs. In particular, attention to object structure during verb learning is compared in children learning English, a language which most frequently employs intrinsic manner of motion verbs, and in children learning Japanese, a language which most frequently employs extrinsic paths of motion verbs.

Keywords:   object knowledge, verb learning, acquisition of verbs, English language, Japanese language

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