How Long to Read Flexibility in Early Verb Use

How Long Does it Take to Read Flexibility in Early Verb Use?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 34 minutes to read Flexibility in Early Verb Use by Letitia R. Naigles

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Description

Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and varied exemplars of the categories to which words refer, and in new and varied combinations with other words. When and how children achieve this flexibility—and when they are truly productive language users—are central issues among accounts of language acquisition. The current study tests competing hypotheses of the achievement of flexibility and some kinds of productivity against data on children’s first uses of their first-acquired verbs. Eight mothers recorded their children's first 10 uses of 34 early-acquired verbs, if those verbs were produced within the window of the study. The children were between 16 and 20 months when the study began (depending on when the children started to produce verbs), were followed for between 3 and 12 months, and produced between 13 and 31 of the target verbs. These diary records provided the basis for a description of the pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic properties of early verb use. The data revealed that within this early, initial period of verb use, children use their verbs both to command and describe, they use their verbs in reference to a variety of appropriate actions enacted by a variety of actors and with a variety of affected objects, and they use their verbs in a variety of syntactic structures. All 8 children displayed semantic and grammatical flexibility before 24 months of age. These findings are more consistent with a model of the language learning child as an avid generalizer than as a conservative language user. Children’s early verb use suggests abilities and inclinations to abstract from experience that may indeed begin in infancy.

How long is Flexibility in Early Verb Use?

Flexibility in Early Verb Use by Letitia R. Naigles is 153 pages long, and a total of 38,709 words.

This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Flexibility in Early Verb Use Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 31 minutes to read Flexibility in Early Verb Use aloud.

What Reading Level is Flexibility in Early Verb Use?

Flexibility in Early Verb Use is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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