How toddlers begin to learn verbs Export

@article{citeulike:3186241, abstract = {Any theory of language must account for how children learn verbs, the gateway to grammar. Yet verbs can be difficult to learn. Building on Gentner's [`]natural partitions hypothesis' we suggest that, to learn a verb, infants must conceptualize components of events and map verbs in the ambient language onto those components. Although toddlers detect and categorize at least some of the conceptual underpinnings of verb categories, the mapping of verbs onto these representations is not transparent. Mapping is a difficult problem in its own right. The Emergentist Coalition Model that has been used to explain noun learning also begins to explain how children move from perceptual to social and then to linguistic information to link verbs to actions and events.}, author = {Golinkoff, Roberta M. and Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy}, citeulike-article-id = {3186241}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.003}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364661308001988}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18760656}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18760656}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VH9-4T9SBVT-4/2/e9765aaed9667b1227bbba789256420a}, doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.003}, journal = {Trends in Cognitive Sciences}, keywords = {acquisition, children, development, psycholinguistics, verb}, number = {10}, pages = {397--403}, posted-at = {2008-09-03 15:26:59}, priority = {2}, title = {How toddlers begin to learn verbs}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.003}, volume = {12}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3186241 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3186241 N2 - Any theory of language must account for how children learn verbs, the gateway to grammar. Yet verbs can be difficult to learn. Building on Gentner's [`]natural partitions hypothesis' we suggest that, to learn a verb, infants must conceptualize components of events and map verbs in the ambient language onto those components. Although toddlers detect and categorize at least some of the conceptual underpinnings of verb categories, the mapping of verbs onto these representations is not transparent. Mapping is a difficult problem in its own right. The Emergentist Coalition Model that has been used to explain noun learning also begins to explain how children move from perceptual to social and then to linguistic information to link verbs to actions and events. IS - 10 JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences EP - 403 TI - How toddlers begin to learn verbs VL - 12 SP - 397 KW - acquisition KW - children KW - development KW - psycholinguistics KW - verb AU - Golinkoff, Roberta AU - Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.003 ER -