Veerle Van Geenhoven

Semantics in Acquisition - Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics Veerle Van Geenhoven 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Based on pre-pub. info only. Due date: 04/06. Table of Contents: Acquisition and Interpretation: A Brief Introduction / VEERLE VAN GEENHOVEN Part I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE Mismatches of Form and Interpretation / GREG CARLSON Watching Noun Phrases Emerge: Seeking Compositionality / TOM ROEPER Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Complement Tense / AYUMI MATSUO PART II: ACQUIRING UNIVERSAL QUANTIFICATION Everybody Knows / LUISA MERONI, ANDREA GUALMINI AND STEPHEN CRAIN The Effect of Context on Children's Interpretations of Universally Quantified Sentences / KENNETH F. DROZD AND ERIK VAN LOOSBROEK Structure and Meaning in the Acquisition of Scope / JULIEN MUSOLINO PART III: TIME IN THE LANGUAGE OF A LEARNER Time for Children: An Integrated Stage Model of Aspect and Tense / VEERLE VAN GEENHOVEN State Change and Temporal Reference in Inuktitut Child Language / MARY SWIFT Temporal Adverbials and Early Tense and Aspect Markers in the Acquisition of Dutch / MARIANNE STARREN PART IV: FINITENESS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT On Finiteness / WOLFGANG KLEIN Functions of Finiteness in Child Language / PETRA GRETSCH PART V: FOCUS PARTICLES IN CHILD LANGUAGE Additive Particles and Scope Marking in Child German / ULRIKE NEDERSTIGT (Un) Stressed Ook in Child Dutch / WENDA BERGSMA Subject IndexBiographical Note: Veerle Van Geenhoven is a formal semanticist with a primary interest in crosslinguistic research. She received a 'Dr.phil.' degree in linguistics from the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, Germany, in 1996, and a university lecturing qualification (Habilitation) from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany, in 2005. She held positions at the University of Stuttgart, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the University of Bielefeld, UC Santa Cruz, and the Radboud University in Nijjmegen. In the last years, her research has been made possible by a fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. "Jacket Description/Back: This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few. The volume creates a theoretical as well as an empirical bridge between semantic research on the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition studies on the other. Publisher Marketing: This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few. The volume creates a theoretical as well as an empirical bridge between semantic research on the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition studies on the other.

Contributor Bio:  Van Geenhoven, Veerle Veerle Van Geenhoven is a formal semanticist with a primary interest in crosslinguistic research. She received a 'Dr.phil.' degree in linguistics from the Eberhard-Karls-UniversitAt TA1/4bingen, Germany, in 1996, and a university lecturing qualification (Habilitation) from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-UniversitAt Frankfurt, Germany, in 2005. She held positions at the University of Stuttgart, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the University of Bielefeld, UC Santa Cruz, and the Radboud University in Nijjmegen. In the last years, her research has been made possible by a fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.