TY - BOOK AU - Tribushinina,Elena AU - Voeĭkova,Maria D. AU - Noccetti,Sabrina TI - Semantics and morphology of early adjectives in first language acquisition SN - 9781443883269 AV - P118 U1 - 401.93 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Newcastle-upon-Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Language acquisition KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Adjective KW - Langage KW - Acquisition KW - Adjectif KW - bicssc KW - Semantics, discourse analysis, etc KW - Grammar, syntax & morphology KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Morphology KW - Semantics KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes N2 - This book is about how toddlers learn their first adjectives, such as, for example, red, big and tasty. Adjectives denote properties and enter child vocabularies later than words for objects (such as apple and tree) and actions (such as eat and run), probably due to lower frequencies in parental speech and greater conceptual complexity. Adjective acquisition has received relatively little attention in child language research. Furthermore, cross-linguistic studies of adjective learning are virtually non-existent. This book represents the first systematic analysis of how children learning typolo UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1077507 ER -