First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521374965)

First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played in her early grammatical development. The author argues that many of a child's first grammatical structures are tied to individual verbs, and that earliest language is based on general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning.

Author: Michael Tomasello
ISBN-10: 0521374960
ISBN-13: 9780521374965
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/27/1992
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.36w x 1.16d