- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 An Invitation to an Event
- 2 Event Concepts
- 3 Events Are What We Make of Them
- Part II Developing an Understanding of Events: Overview
- 4 Perceptual Development in Infancy as the Foundation of Event Perception
- 5 Pragmatics of Human Action
- 6 Event Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood
- 7 Current Events: How Infants Parse the World and Events for Language
- 8 Speaking of Events: Event Word Learning and Event Representation
- Part III Perceiving and Segmenting Events: Overview
- 9 Representations of Voluntary Arm Movements in the Motor Cortex and Their Transformations
- 10 Events and Actions as Dynamically Molded Spatiotemporal Objects: A Critique of the Motor Theory of Biological Motion Perception
- 11 Movement Style, Movement Features, and the Recognition of Affect from Human Movement
- 12 Retrieving Information from Human Movement Patterns
- 13 Neurophysiology of Action Recognition
- 14 Animacy and Intention in the Brain: Neuroscience of Social Event Perception
- 15 The Role of Segmentation in Perception and Understanding of Events
- 16 Geometric Information for Event Segmentation
- 17 The Structure of Experience
- Part IV Representing and Remembering Events: Overview
- 18 Computational Vision Approaches for Event Modeling
- 19 Shining Spotlights, Zooming Lenses, Grabbing Hands, and Pecking Chickens: The Ebb and Flow of Attention During Events
- 20 Dynamics and the Perception of Causal Events
- 21 The Boundaries of Episodic Memories
- 22 The Human Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes
- 23 Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Comprehension
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Speaking of Events: Event Word Learning and Event Representation
Speaking of Events: Event Word Learning and Event Representation
- Chapter:
- (p.193) 8 Speaking of Events: Event Word Learning and Event Representation
- Source:
- Understanding Events
- Author(s):
Mandy J. Maguire
Guy O. Dove
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the difficulty facing children attempting to learn novel event labels. Children must overcome what has become known as the “packaging problem”: they must figure out which event components among the many that co-occur are bundled, or “packaged”, together within the meaning of an event word. It argues that children initially use two main sources of information to help them learn event words. The first is prelinguistic universal concepts, which give them a toehold into abstracting and labeling important event features. The second is the use of perceptual similarity across same-labeled exemplars, which initially makes verb meanings quite conservative and situation-specific.
Keywords: event labels, children, event perception, packaging problem, event words, prelinguistic universal concepts, perceptual similarity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 An Invitation to an Event
- 2 Event Concepts
- 3 Events Are What We Make of Them
- Part II Developing an Understanding of Events: Overview
- 4 Perceptual Development in Infancy as the Foundation of Event Perception
- 5 Pragmatics of Human Action
- 6 Event Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood
- 7 Current Events: How Infants Parse the World and Events for Language
- 8 Speaking of Events: Event Word Learning and Event Representation
- Part III Perceiving and Segmenting Events: Overview
- 9 Representations of Voluntary Arm Movements in the Motor Cortex and Their Transformations
- 10 Events and Actions as Dynamically Molded Spatiotemporal Objects: A Critique of the Motor Theory of Biological Motion Perception
- 11 Movement Style, Movement Features, and the Recognition of Affect from Human Movement
- 12 Retrieving Information from Human Movement Patterns
- 13 Neurophysiology of Action Recognition
- 14 Animacy and Intention in the Brain: Neuroscience of Social Event Perception
- 15 The Role of Segmentation in Perception and Understanding of Events
- 16 Geometric Information for Event Segmentation
- 17 The Structure of Experience
- Part IV Representing and Remembering Events: Overview
- 18 Computational Vision Approaches for Event Modeling
- 19 Shining Spotlights, Zooming Lenses, Grabbing Hands, and Pecking Chickens: The Ebb and Flow of Attention During Events
- 20 Dynamics and the Perception of Causal Events
- 21 The Boundaries of Episodic Memories
- 22 The Human Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes
- 23 Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Comprehension
- Author Index
- Subject Index
