Flexibility in Early Verb Use: Evidence from a Multiple-N Diary Study

by Donna Vea, Erika Hoff, Letitia R. Naigles

Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and varied exemplars of the categories to which words refer, and in new and varied combinations with other words. When and how children achieve this flexibility--and when they are truly productive language users--are central issues among accounts of language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444333577
• ISBN13: 9781444333572
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"