Conceptual Foundations for Verb Learning: Celebrating the Event
Book Chapter
Pulverman, R, Hirsh-Pasek, KA, Golinkoff, RM et al. (2010). Conceptual Foundations for Verb Learning: Celebrating the Event
. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0006
Pulverman, R, Hirsh-Pasek, KA, Golinkoff, RM et al. (2010). Conceptual Foundations for Verb Learning: Celebrating the Event
. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0006
This chapter evaluates whether difficulty in analyzing and conceptualizing nonlinguistic events contributes to the documented difficulty in verb learning. It shows that not only can infants discriminate between events based on these components but that they are also capable of forming some categories of events along these lines. Furthermore, there is a relationship between infants' ability to see certain distinctions in non-linguistic events and their level of language development. Infants can look within motion events to find the primitives that form the basis for verb learning and can even form categories based on these primitives.
