Beyond Names for Things Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs
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Michael Tomasello, William E. Merriman<p><i>"...a welcome look at the problem of first language verb-learning in young children....the papers cogently spell out the complexity of the verb-learner's problem and the variety of processes required to solve it. A number of interesting, counterintuitive, and often controversial claims emerge....there is a good deal of thematic coherence among subsets of the chapters, which makes reading all the more interesting by pointing out key issues and discrepant claims....a timely volume reporting some of the best current work on the problem of verb-learning in children."</i><br />—<b><i>Studies in Second Language Acquisition</i></b></p><p><i>"...a stimulating collection of papers which not only provides an accurate reflection of the current state of the field, but also allows the reader to compare directly approaches which are more or less diametrically opposed."</i><br />—<b><i>British Journal of Developmental Psychology</i></b></p><p><i>"This book presents many fascinating classic and innovative philosophies and empirical backgrounds designed to focus on longuistic and cognitive peculiarities of verb meaning acquisition."</i><br />—<b><i>American Journal of Psychology</i></b></p>