What gestures reveal about the development of semantic distinctions in Dutch children's placement verbs
Placement verbs describe every-day events like putting a toy in a box. Dutch uses two semi-obligatory caused posture verbs (leggen ‘lay’ and zetten ‘set/stand’) to distinguish between events based on whether the located object is placed horizontally or vertically. Although prevalent in the input, these verbs cause Dutch children difficulties even at age five (Narasimhan & Gullberg, in press). Children overextend leggen to all placement events and underextend use of zetten. This study examines what gestures can reveal about Dutch three- and five-year-olds’ semantic representations of such v... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | contributiontojournal/article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Mouton de Gruyter
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Schlagwörter: | General Language Studies and Linguistics / child language acquisition / verb semantics / gesture / Dutch / placement / language development |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26663802 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1578847 |