The Mechanics of Meaning: Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

The Mechanics of Meaning: Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author
David Hyder
Publisher
De Gruyter
Language
English
Year
2002
Page
239
ISBN
9783110889130,9783110172188
File Type
pdf
File Size
8.3 MiB

The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of two parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses problems in determining what constitutes the nature of classifiers. It also discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families. Second, it examines the acquisitions of Japanese numeral classifiers by Japanese preschool children, ages 3 to 6, with a primary emphasis on the development of comprehension. The importance of the study is that it reveals that young children have a much greater sensitivity to the conceptual underpinnings of the numeral classifier system than was previously considered to be the case. The research results also provide a converging source of evidence that young children often come to initially grasp the structure of the world in ways that are better understood in cognitive than perceptual terms. The implications will contribute to not only the area of language acquisition but also categorization and conceptual development.

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