Dr. Kristen Syrett and her coauthor Dr. Sudha Arunachalam have published their edited volume entitled, Semantics in Language Acquisition, as part of the John Benjamins series, Trends in Language Acquisition Research.
“This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants’ initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical content and inferences on language meaning (semantics and pragmatics), the papers in this volume introduce the reader to the variety of ways in which children come to realize that semantic content is encoded in word meaning (for example, in the event semantics of the verbal domain or the scope of logical operators), and at the level of the sentence, which requires the composition of semantic meaning. The authors represent some of the most established and promising researchers in this domain, demonstrating collective expertise in a range of methodologies and topics relevant to the acquisition of semantics. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for students and faculty, and junior and seasoned researchers alike.”
Access the Table of Contents here.
Dr. Syrett and Dr. Arunachalam pose with their book at the John Benjamins table at BUCLD43 in November 2018.