10.6084/m9.figshare.5831190.v1
Melissa Bowerman
Melissa
Bowerman
Lecture 2 - Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition
Brill Online
2018
cognitive linguistics
psycholinguistics
language acquisition
Linguistics
2018-01-29 14:25:59
Media
https://brill.figshare.com/articles/media/Lecture_2_-_Ten_Lectures_on_Language_Cognition_and_Language_Acquisition/5831190
<p>In her
Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of
her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of
spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the semantics of
nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early language
acquisition. Bowerman also covers the
learning of argument structure and expressions of end-state, with special
attention to the adult speech that guides children, and hence also the role of
typology in acquisition; how cross-linguistic variation affects, for example,
how speakers represent ‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the
relation of the Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the
semantics of languages. Bowerman’s
over-riding concern throughout is with how children come to master the first
language being spoken to them by their parents and caregivers.</p>