Publications

Publication details [#19055]

Gleitman, Lila R. and Barbara Landau. 1994. The Acquisition of the lexicon. MIT Press. 492 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexicon, L1-acquisition of

ISBN

0-262-57109-9

Annotation

This book on the acquisition of the lexicon almost completely sticks to the older impossibility-of-learning framework, dealing with the following themes: concepts and nouns; learning verbs; and finding word units (including one chapter arguing for learning).

Reviewed by

Smith, Larry E. and Michael Gasser. 1997. Review of $The Acquisition of the lexicon.