%0 Book
%A Wittek, Angelika
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : a case study of German child language : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-082C-7
%F EDOC: 285567
%@ 978-3-11-017304-8
%@ 978-3-11-179680-2
%@ 978-3-11-090798-8
%I Mouton de Druyter
%C Berlin
%D 2002
%P viii, 233 p.
%X Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.
%B Studies on Language Acquisition
%N 17