Bilingual Selection Of Syntactic Knowledge

Author : Teresa Satterfield
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781461552598

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Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge by Teresa Satterfield Pdf

Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge motivates a more formal approach in theoretical linguistics by investigating the parameters of syntactic variation and simultaneous acquisition of multiple languages. Taking the behavior of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP) across languages as an illustration, the book raises important questions concerning the adequacy of standard parameter-setting models in the face of compelling evidence from both mono- and bilingual child speech data. Teresa Satterfield argues convincingly that so-called `universal' premises guiding well-known parametric approaches greatly complicate attempts to construct an economical bilingual analysis. Further, she demonstrates the compatibility of more recent formulations in linguistic theory (i.e. the Minimalist Program) and studies on language learnability (Clark, 1992, 1993; Kapur, 1994) which present the view that while initially convincing, standard parameter models are potentially costly and less than effective in terms of monolinguals as well. Using Clark's application of the Genetic Algorithm as a point of departure, Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge describes a number of computational simulations. These simulations not only demonstrate the robustness of the GA-as-language-learner, they offer a more detailed account of the parameter-setting task confronting the bilingual child while also making more precise predictions regarding the process of syntactic knowledge.

Author : Robert C. Berwick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262022265

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge by Robert C. Berwick Pdf

The computer model. Computation and language acquisition. The acquisition model. Learning phrase structure. Learning transformations. A theory of acquisition. Acquisition complexity. Learning theory: applications. Locality principles and acquisition.

Author : Carolyn Kessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015003652412

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The Acquisition of Syntax in Bilingual Children by Carolyn Kessler Pdf

Author : Regine Eckardt,Gerhard Jäger,Tonjes Veenstra
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110205398

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Variation, Selection, Development by Regine Eckardt,Gerhard Jäger,Tonjes Veenstra Pdf

Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties together various strands of linguistic research which can bring us towards an answer to these questions. In one of the youngest and rapidly growing areas of linguistic research, mathematical models and simulations of competition based developments have been applied to instances of language change. By matching the predicted and observed developmental trends, researchers gauge existing models to the needs of linguistic applications and evaluate the fruitfulness of evolutionary models in linguistics. The present volume confronts these studies with more empirically-based studies in creolization and historical language change which bear on key concepts of evolutionary models. What does it mean for a linguistic construction to survive its competitors? How do the interacting factors in phases of creolization differ from those in ordinary language change, and how - consequently - might Creole languages differ structurally from older languages? Some of the authors, finally, also address the question how different aspects of our linguistic competence tie in with our more elementary cognitive capacities. The volume contains contributions by Brady Clark et al., Elly van Gelderen, Alain Kihm, Manfred Krifka, Wouter Kusters, Robert van Rooij, Anette Rosenbach, John McWhorter, Teresa Satterfield, Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth C. Traugott. The book brings together contributions from two areas of research: the study of language evolution by means of methods from artifical intelligence/artificial life (like computer simulations and analytic mathematical methods) on the one hand, and empirically oriented research from historical linguistics and creolisation studies that uses concepts from evolutionary theory as a heuristic tool in a qualitative way. The book is thus interesting for readers from both traditions because it supplies them with information about relevant ongoing research and useful methods and data from the other camp.

Author : Timothy Gupton,Elizabeth Gielau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259929

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East and West of The Pentacrest by Timothy Gupton,Elizabeth Gielau Pdf

This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As a whole, these contributions explore two areas of particular interest to linguistic theorizing. The first is linguistic interfaces with chapters on syntax-information structure, syntax-prosody, syntax-semantics, and lexicon-phonology. The second consists of explorations of noun phrases of all sizes—from clitics to nominalized clauses. The results and conclusions of these studies encourage researchers to continue to explore individual languages in particular in order to gain insight on human language in general. This edited volume in honor of Dr. Paula Kempchinsky is reflective of the diversity of approaches that inspired her teaching, research, and mentoring for over thirty years at the University of Iowa and beyond.

Author : Marie-Hélène Côté,Eric Mathieu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269164

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Variation within and across Romance Languages by Marie-Hélène Côté,Eric Mathieu Pdf

This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time, linguistic contexts, and communicative situations. Furthermore, the articles address common theoretical and empirical issues from different formal, experimental, or corpus-based perspectives. The languages analyzed belong to the main members of the Romance family, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Ladin, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian, and a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields, from phonetics to semantics, as well as historical linguistics, bilingualism and second-language learning, is covered. By illustrating the richness and complementarity of subjects, methods, and theoretical frameworks explored within Romance linguistics, significant contributieons are made to both the documentation of Romance languages and to linguistic theory.

Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853595844

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Portraits of the L2 User by Vivian Cook Pdf

Portraits of the L2 User treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an innovative overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and methods, seen from a common perspective.

Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847699589

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Effects of the Second Language on the First by Vivian Cook Pdf

This book looks at changes in the first language of people who know a second language, thus seeing L2 users as people in their own right differing from the monolingual in both first and second languages. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language users from a variety of perspectives including vocabulary, pragmatics, cognition, and syntax and using a variety of linguistic and psychological models.

Author : Yan-kit Ingrid Leung
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847691316

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Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar by Yan-kit Ingrid Leung Pdf

This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. It aims to bring together researchers who are interested in L3 acquisition and who are at the same time working within the generative framework i.e. Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) approach to language acquisition. A total of nine contributions are included, reporting research on L3 involving different combinations of source/target languages and investigating various UG-related properties.

Author : Barbara Köpke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241449

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Language Attrition by Barbara Köpke Pdf

This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA and bilingualism. In the thirteen papers collected here, experts in particular disciplines of bilingualism, such as neurolinguistics, formal linguistics, contact linguistics and language and identity, provide an in-depth perspective on L1 attrition which will make the translation of theory to hypothesis easier for future research.

Author : Jeff MacSwan
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800415706

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Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging by Jeff MacSwan Pdf

This book brings together a broad, interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to critically assess a recent proposal within translanguaging theory called deconstructivism: the view that discrete or ‘named’ languages do not exist. Contributors explore important topics in relation to the deconstructivist turn in translanguaging, including epistemology, language ideology, bilingual linguistic competence, codeswitching, bilingual first language acquisition, the neurolinguistics of bilingualism, the significance of language naming to Indigenous language reclamation efforts, implications for bilingual education and language rights, and the effects of translanguaging on immersion programs for endangered languages. Contributing authors converge on support for a multilingual perspective on translanguaging which affirms the pedagogical and conceptual aims of translanguaging but rejects deconstructivism. The book makes a valuable contribution to the development of translanguaging theory and will be required reading for scholars and students interested in one of the most vibrant and vital debates in contemporary applied linguistics.

Author : Tanja Angelovska,Angela Hahn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265609

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L3 Syntactic Transfer by Tanja Angelovska,Angela Hahn Pdf

This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms. The volume is organised into three sections that focus on prominent syntactic transfer models in the field of L3A and together provide insights into the interplay of the influences of prior languages in L3 syntax and how we can enrich the practical field of instructed L3 acquisition. Part I includes original papers dealing with new developments of existing theoretical models on syntactic transfer in L3A and Part II consists of empirical studies testing existing models from different perspectives (formal, lexico-functional, and neurocognitive). Following these two sections, Part III discusses how theory can inform practices for L3 learning and teaching. This concise compilation brings to light innovations, not only in terms of theoretical refinements and practical implementations, but also in offering an impressive range of language combinations. This book is intended to act as a unique resource for scholars, applied linguists, language educators, both novices and experts alike, in and beyond the field of L3A.

Author : Shan, Yin,Yang, Ang
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781599049632

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Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems by Shan, Yin,Yang, Ang Pdf

"This book provides an estimable global view of the most up-to-date research on the strategies, applications, practice, and implications of complex adaptive systems, to better understand the various critical systems that surround human life. Researchers will find this book an indispensable state-of-art reference"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Nan Jiang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780192593559

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The Study of Bilingual Language Processing by Nan Jiang Pdf

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifies the most important characteristics of this research and its historical developments, before the main part of the book explores studies of four bilingual processing topics. The first of these is lexico-semantic representation and organization in bilinguals, which deals with how words and meanings are represented and connected in the bilingual mind. The second, cross-language priming, explores the bilingual lexicon by examining how exposure to words in one language may affect word recognition in another and leads to the discovery of an asymmetry in translation priming. The third topic is selective lexical access in bilinguals, which examines whether bilinguals can selectively activate one language while suppressing the other, while the fourth is code switching, focussing on language control and language regulation mechanisms in bilinguals. The book concludes with a chapter that reviews research in three areas beyond lexical processing: autobiographical memory, the representation and interaction of syntactic knowledge, and the consequences of bilingualism. The volume demonstrates the theoretical significance and real-world practical implications of research into bilingual language processing, and will be a valuable resource for seminars and courses from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Author : Ellen Bialystok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521635071

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Bilingualism in Development by Ellen Bialystok Pdf

Describes how intellectual development of bilingual children differs from that of monolingual children.