Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1 Foundational issues
- Part 2 Constraints on word learning?
- Part 3 Entities, individuation, and quantification
- Part 4 Relational concepts in form–function mapping
- 13 Emergent categories in first language acquisition
- 14 Form–function relations: how do children find out what they are?
- 15 Cognitive–conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes: the development of time concepts and verb tense
- 16 Shaping meanings for language: universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categories
- 17 Learning to talk about motion UP and DOWN in Tzeltal: is there a language-specific bias for verb learning?
- 18 Finding the richest path: language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan)
- 19 Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications for language learning
- Author index
- Subject index
18 - Finding the richest path: language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1 Foundational issues
- Part 2 Constraints on word learning?
- Part 3 Entities, individuation, and quantification
- Part 4 Relational concepts in form–function mapping
- 13 Emergent categories in first language acquisition
- 14 Form–function relations: how do children find out what they are?
- 15 Cognitive–conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes: the development of time concepts and verb tense
- 16 Shaping meanings for language: universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categories
- 17 Learning to talk about motion UP and DOWN in Tzeltal: is there a language-specific bias for verb learning?
- 18 Finding the richest path: language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan)
- 19 Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications for language learning
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development , pp. 544 - 565Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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