Names for Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Names for Things write by John Macnamara. This book was released on 1982. Names for Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is concerned with the child's acquisition of names (by which is meant words that refer to objects - including proper names, common nouns in some uses, and pronouns in some uses). Four chapters in the book's first section, Matters Mainly Psychological, describe empirical observations that explore how a child copes with the fact that many different name-like words can be applied to a single object. A second major section, Matters Mainly Linguistic, contains chapters on phonology, the learning of grammatical categories, the definite and indefinite articles, and the plural. A third section, Matters Mainly Philosophical, focuses entirely on the complex issues of reference and meaning. A final chapter reflects on the implications of the book for developmental psychology.An MIT Press/Bradford Book.
Beyond Names for Things
Beyond Names for Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Names for Things write by Michael Tomasello. This book was released on 2014-02-25. Beyond Names for Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to focus specifically on how children acquire their early verbs. Verbs are an especially important part of the early lexicon because of the role they play in children's emerging grammatical competence. The contributors to this book investigate: * children's earliest words for actions and events and the cognitive structures that might underlie them, * the possibility that the basic principles of word learning which apply in the case of nouns might also apply in the case of verbs, and the role of linguistic context, especially argument structure, in the acquisition of verbs. A central theme in many of the chapters is the comparison of the processes of noun and verb learning. Several contributors make provocative suggestions for constructing theories of lexical development that encompass the full range of lexical items that children learn and use.
My Father Knows the Names of Things
My Father Knows the Names of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Father Knows the Names of Things write by Jane Yolen. This book was released on 2010-04-27. My Father Knows the Names of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.
The Names of Things
The Names of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Names of Things write by David Helwig. This book was released on 2006. The Names of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Names of Things is a book about a man and a generation. Born to a working-class family in Toronto, David Helwig grew up in the haunted town of Niagara-on-the-Lake long before it became a fashionable summer destination for charter coaches of American tourists. David won a scholarship from General Motors to attend the University of Toronto and launched himself into theatrical productions at Hart House and mingled with such writers as John Robert Colombo, Henry Beissel, Edward Lacey, David Lewis Stein and Edna Paris. After working in summer stock with young actors including Timothy Findley, Gordon Pinsent and Jackie Burroughs, he spent a couple of years in the suburbs of Birkenhead, then moved to Kingston where, in the 1960s he shared the world of little magazines with Tom Marshall and Michael Ondaatje and the world of prisons with the inmates he taught. In the 1970s he worked under John Hirsch at the CBC. He edited books for Oberon Press. He was part of the generation of young Canadian writers who believed they could achieve anything. He also shares a touching account of family life, of learning to be a father. Poetry, some of it never before published, catches the echoes of the life he lived. From childhood during the Second World War to becoming a grandfather at the millennium, this is the story of one man and his connections with the history of Canada in the latter part of the twentieth century.
The Names of Things
The Names of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Names of Things write by Susan Brind Morrow. This book was released on 1998. The Names of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
