In:Semantics in Language Acquisition
Edited by Kristen Syrett and Sudha Arunachalam
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 24] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 2 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.24.toc
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.The historical emergence and current study of semantics in acquisition
1
Kristen Syrett
Section I.Lexical meaning
Chapter 2.Word meanings and semantic domains in acquisition
21
Eve V. Clark
Chapter 3.The influence of linguistic temporal organization on children’s understanding of temporal terms and concepts
45
Laura Wagner
Chapter 4.Semantic features of early vocabularies
67
Sabrina Horvath
Leslie Rescorla
Sudha Arunachalam
Section II.Event semantics
Chapter 5.On the acquisition of event culmination
95
Angeliek van Hout
Chapter 6.Telicity in typical and impaired acquisition
123
Petra Schulz
Section III.Syntactic structure and semantic meaning
Chapter 7.Not all subjects are agents: Transitivity and meaning in early language comprehension
153
Rose Scott
Yael Gertner
Cynthia Fisher
Chapter 8.Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions: A novel construction learning study
177
Ben Ambridge
Micah B. Goldwater
Elena V. M. Lieven
Chapter 9.The labeling problem in syntactic bootstrapping: Main clause syntax in the acquisition of propositional attitude verbs
197
Aaron White
Valentine Hacquard
Jeffrey Lidz
Chapter 10.Perspectives on truth: The case of language and false belief reasoning
221
Jill de Villiers
Section IV.Logical interpretations
Chapter 11.The meaning of question words in statements in child Mandarin
249
Stephen Crain
Peng Zhou
Chapter 12.Overt, covert, and clandestine operations: Ambiguity and ellipsis in acquisition
275
Kristen Syrett
Section V.The relation between semantics and pragmatics
Chapter 13.Developmental insights into gappy phenomena: Comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness
301
Lyn Tieu
Cory Bill
Jérémy Zehr
Jacopo Romoli
Florian Schwarz
Chapter 14.Four-year-old children compute scalar implicatures in absence of epistemic reasoning
325
David Barner
Lara Hochstein
Miriam Rubenson
Alan Bale
Chapter 15.The acquisition path of near-reflexivity
351
Valentina Brunetto
Thomas Roeper
Index
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