- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: Progress on the Verb Learning Front
- 1 Finding the Verbs: Distributional Cues to Categories Available to Young Learners
- 2 Finding Verb Forms Within the Continuous Speech Stream
- 3 Discovering Verbs Through Multiple-Cue Integration
- 4 Actions Organize the Infant’s World
- 5 Conceptual Foundations for Verb Learning: Celebrating the Event
- 6 Precursors to Verb Learning: Infants' Understanding of Motion Events
- 7 Preverbal Spatial Cognition and Language-Specific Input: Categories of Containment and Support
- 8 The Roots of Verbs in Prelinguistic Action Knowledge
- 9 When Is a Grasp a Grasp? Characterizing Some Basic Components of Human Action Processing
- 10 Word, Intention, and Action: A Two-Tiered Model of Action Word Learning
- 11 Verbs, Actions, and Intentions
- 12 Are Nouns Easier to Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies
- 13 Verbs at the Very Beginning: Parallels Between Comprehension and Input
- 14 A Unified Theory of Word Learning: Putting Verb Acquisition in Context
- 15 Who's the Subject? Sentence Structure and Verb Meaning
- 16 Verb Learning as a Probe Into Children's Grammars
- 17 Revisiting the Noun-Verb Debate: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Novel Noun and Verb Learning in English-, Japanese-, and Chinese-Speaking Children
- 18 But Are They Really Verbs? Chinese Words for Action
- 19 Influences of Object Knowledge on the Acquisition of Verbs in English and Japanese
- 20 East and West: A Role for Culture in the Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs
- 21 Why Verbs Are Hard to Learn
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Verbs, Actions, and Intentions
Verbs, Actions, and Intentions
- Chapter:
- (p.286) 11 Verbs, Actions, and Intentions
- Source:
- Action Meets Word
- Author(s):
Douglas A. Behrend
Jason Scofield
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter investigates the interrelatedness of human actions, the intentions that guide those actions, and the language used to label and describe those actions. It describes several studies which have attempted to empirically document the ways in which intentions, actions, and verbs are related in young children's growing understanding of the physical, mental, and linguistic world around them. The chapter concludes by suggesting a model in which developmental achievements in both language development and in early theory of mind — as documented by children's growing sophistication in their understanding of the intentional basis of human behavior — mutually and reciprocally influence each other in nontrivial manners.
Keywords: human actions, verbs, intentions, language development
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: Progress on the Verb Learning Front
- 1 Finding the Verbs: Distributional Cues to Categories Available to Young Learners
- 2 Finding Verb Forms Within the Continuous Speech Stream
- 3 Discovering Verbs Through Multiple-Cue Integration
- 4 Actions Organize the Infant’s World
- 5 Conceptual Foundations for Verb Learning: Celebrating the Event
- 6 Precursors to Verb Learning: Infants' Understanding of Motion Events
- 7 Preverbal Spatial Cognition and Language-Specific Input: Categories of Containment and Support
- 8 The Roots of Verbs in Prelinguistic Action Knowledge
- 9 When Is a Grasp a Grasp? Characterizing Some Basic Components of Human Action Processing
- 10 Word, Intention, and Action: A Two-Tiered Model of Action Word Learning
- 11 Verbs, Actions, and Intentions
- 12 Are Nouns Easier to Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies
- 13 Verbs at the Very Beginning: Parallels Between Comprehension and Input
- 14 A Unified Theory of Word Learning: Putting Verb Acquisition in Context
- 15 Who's the Subject? Sentence Structure and Verb Meaning
- 16 Verb Learning as a Probe Into Children's Grammars
- 17 Revisiting the Noun-Verb Debate: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Novel Noun and Verb Learning in English-, Japanese-, and Chinese-Speaking Children
- 18 But Are They Really Verbs? Chinese Words for Action
- 19 Influences of Object Knowledge on the Acquisition of Verbs in English and Japanese
- 20 East and West: A Role for Culture in the Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs
- 21 Why Verbs Are Hard to Learn
- Author Index
- Subject Index
