TY - BOOK ID - 77929615 TI - Lexical bootstrapping : the role of lexis and semantics in child language development AU - Bittner, Dagmar AU - Ruhlig, Nadja PY - 2013 VL - 50 SN - 18614132 SN - 311030869X 9783110308693 9783110308648 3110308649 1299722210 PB - Berlin De Gruyter Mouton DB - UniCat KW - Language awareness in children. KW - Children KW - Lexicology. KW - Semantics. KW - Verbal ability in children. KW - Child psychology KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Language and languages KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - English language KW - Language development in children KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Language acquisition KW - Language. KW - Language KW - Vocabulary KW - Language awareness in children KW - Semantics KW - Verbal ability in children KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Psycholinguistics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77929615 AB - The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis. ER -