Routes to Language

Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole

This book celebrates one of the lights of the field of child language, Melissa Bowerman, with contributions from leading experts who have been directly influenced by her work. It provides the most up-to-date statement of key positions and theorizing regarding fundamental questions in the field of child language development.

V.C. Mueller Gathercole, Preface. Part 1. Learning Words. D. Gentner, Personal Tribute. D. Gentner, L. Boroditsky, Early Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs: Evidence from Navajo. E. Dromi, Personal Tribute. E. Dromi, Old Data - New Eyes: Theories on Word Meaning Acquisition. Part 2. Crosslinguistic Patterning and Acquisition of Lexical Semantics. R. Berman, Personal Tribute. A. Wittek, Personal Tribute. L. de León, Personal Tribute. L. de León, Mayan Semantics in Early Lexical Development: The Case of the Tzotzil Verbs for "Eating" and "Falling Down". P. Brown, B. Narasimhan, Personal Tribute. B. Narasimhan, P. Brown, Getting the INSIDE Story: Learning to Express Containment in Tzeltal and Hindi. Part 3. Crosslinguistic Patterning and Events, Paths, and Causes. L. Talmy, Personal Tribute. J. Chen, Personal Tribute. W. Croft, Personal Tribute. W. Croft, Aspectual and Causal Structure in Event Representations. S. Choi, Personal Tribute. S. Choi, Typological Differences in Syntactic Expressions of Path and Causation. D.I. Slobin, Personal Tribute. D.I. Slobin, Relation between Paths of Motion and Paths of Vision: A Crosslinguistic and Developmental Exploration. Part 4. Influences on Development. R.P. Schaefer, Personal Tribute. M. Crago, Personal Tribute. E.V. Clark, Personal Tribute. E.V. Clark, What Shapes Children's Language? Child-directed Speech and the Process of Acquisition. P. Li, Personal Tribute. P. Li, What's in a Lexical System? Discovering Meaning through an Interactive Eye. M. Rice, Personal Tribute. M. Rice, Language Acquisition Lessons from Children with Specific Language Impairment: Revisiting the Discovery of Latent Structures. V.C. Mueller Gathercole, Personal Tribute. V.C. Mueller Gathercole, "It Was So Much Fun. It Was 20 Fun!" Cognitive and Linguistic Invitations to the Development of Scalar Predicates.