: Dagmar Bittner, Nadja Ruhlig
: Lexical Bootstrapping The Role of Lexis and Semantics in Child Language Development
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110308693
: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 124.30
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 276
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< >The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis.

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< >Dagmar BittnerandNa ja Ruhlig, Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.
Introduction: Emergence and applications of the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis7
Pre-language cognition, motion event semantics, and the transition from single words to first sentences17
Bootstrapping and the acquisition of MandarinChinese: A natural semantic metalanguage Perspective45
Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis and conventionality: a crosslinguistic study on verb acquisition by Chinese Mandarin- and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children79
Lexical acquisition through acquisition order105
Lexicon-grammar continuity in Turkish children’s language growth129
The interrelation between lexical and grammatical abilities in early language acquisition149
Continuity of lexical, grammatical, phonetic and phonological development in German late talkers – A longitudinal study171
Function words and the bootstrapping of grammar in normally developing and impaired L1 -acquisition of German193
The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor223
Grammar from the lexicon: Evidence from neural network simulations of language acquisition251
List of contributors271
Index274