Jean M. Mandler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jean M. Mandler is involved.
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2022 How to talk about motion without verbs Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 293–304 | Chapter
Infants are fascinated by motion. There is abundant evidence that they are far more interested in motion than in static objects. This would lead us to expect that, in addition to nouns, motion verbs would figure prominently in their early vocabularies. But verbs are late, because they are… read more