Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199753717 ISBN 13: 9780199753710

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume represents a proliferation of research on the frontier of early verb learning, enhancing our understanding of the building blocks of language and considering new ways to assess key aspects of language growth.

About this title

About the Author

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is Stanley and Deborah Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology and Director of the Infant Language Laboratory at Temple University.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff is H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the School of Education and Departments of Psychology and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware

Review

"An impressive compilation of up-to-the-minute ideas, research, and theories from the leading thinkers in the field of verb acquisition research. It is an essential handbook for all researchers and postgraduate students. Action Meets Word provides a text that addresses all the issues that are
important in research today."

--Psychology Teaching Review

"Action Meets Word is both timely and important, destined to endure as an important and sought-after resource in the study of language acquisition."

--Lois Bloom, Edward Lee Thorndike, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

"This dazzling collection is jam-packed with the latest ideas, evidence, and debates on verb-learning in children, from leading researchers. The result is a must-read volume: lively, provocative, and deeply satisfying."

--Susan A. Gelman, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan

"This new compendium of articles is required reading for those interested in how infant language learning goes past the initial labeling of objects to understanding and expressing predicate-argument relations... I highly recommend it."

--Lila Gleitman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science and Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science

"Not only a state-of-the-art review of current understanding of verb learning, this book raises fundamental questions about word learning in general and, indeed, about the relation between language and thought."

--Robert Siegler, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199753717
• ISBN 13: 9780199753710
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Hirsh-Pasek Kathy, Michnick Golinkoff Roberta