quinta-feira, 13 de maio de 2010

A criança aprende os verbos


O grande Michael Tomasello nos dá mais um presente.

First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played in her early grammatical development. The author argues that many of a child's first grammatical structures are tied to individual verbs, and that earliest language is based on general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning.

First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development
Michael Tomasello