Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-N diary study

Naigles, Letitia R. (Author). Tomasello, Michael. (Added Author). Hoff, Erika, 1951- (Added Author). Vear, Donna. (Added Author). Society for Research in Child Development. (Added Author).

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Physical Description: print
viii, 143 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009.

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Introduction -- Presenting the diary method -- A general description of early verb growth and use -- Pragmatic and semantic flexibility in early verb use -- Productivity and grammatical flexibility in early verb use -- Differences in early verb growth and use as a function of developmental period, child, and verb -- General discussion -- Commentary. Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use / Michael Tomasello and Silke Brandt ; Learning from infants' first verbs / Sandra R. Waxman ; Early verb learners: creative or not? / Jane B. Childers.