The acquisition of the lexicon / edited by Lila Gleitman and Barbara Landau.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Remarks on lexcial knowledge / E. Williams -- A preliminary analysis of causative verbs in English / B. Levin and M. Rappaport Hovav -- Segmentation problems, rhythmic solutions / A. Cutler -- Domain-general abilities applied to domain-specific tasks : sensitivity to probabilities in perception, cognition, and language / M.H. Kelly and S. Martin -- Does learning a language require the child to reconceptualize the world? / S. Carey -- Explanation, association, and the acquisition of word meaning / F.C. Keil -- Constraints on word meaning in early language acquisition / E.M. Markman -- The development of an appreciation of specific linkages between linguistic and conceptual organization / S.R. Waxman -- Where's what and what's where : the language of objects in space / B. Landau -- Possible names : the role of syntax-semantics mappings in the acquisition of nominals / P. Bloom -- When it is better to receive than to give : syntactic and conceptual constraints on vocabulary growth / C. Fisher [and others] -- How could a child use verb syntax to learn verb semantics? / S. Pinker -- Lexical reconciliation / J. Grimshaw -- Surface cues and robust inference as a basis for the early acquisition of subcatergorization frames / M.R. Brent -- Acquisition of verb categories / M. Steedman.

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