English Transitivity Alternation In Second Language Acquisition An Attentional Approach

Author : Yuxia Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351796415

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English Transitivity Alternation in Second Language Acquisition: an Attentional Approach by Yuxia Wang Pdf

The correct use of English verb argument structure is crucial for foreign learners of the English language. Based on an experimental study recruiting 162 Chinese English learners at different proficiency levels, this book suggests that the acquisition of English transitivity alternation follows as a consequence of the cognitive processing of language input, which is induced by the nature of task requirements in different learning conditions and influenced by individual differences in language learning aptitude and proficiency level. Readers of this book will have a deeper understanding of all these variables involved and will learn that pedagogical issues should be considered in a more thorough, comprehensive manner to explore better solutions for English learning and teaching.

Author : Xiaofei Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351611176

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Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics by Xiaofei Wang Pdf

In the past decades, quotation theories have developed roughly along three lines—quotation types, meaning effects, and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Currently, whether the quoted expression is truth-conditionally relevant to the quotational sentence, and if there is a truth-conditional impact, whether it is generated via semantic or pragmatic processes, have become the central concerns of quotation studies. In this book, quotation is clearly defined for the first time as a constituent embedded within yet distinctive from the quotational sentence. Also, as the first monograph to address the semantics/pragmatics boundary dispute over quotation, it argues that the semantic content of quotation amounts to its contribution to the intuitive truth-conditional content of the quotational utterance via two modes of presentation, which are incarnated in the functioning of quotation marks and manifested as use and mention. The use/mention-based analysis in this book can shed light on the semantic theorizing of other metalinguistic phenomena, while the semantics/pragmatics perspective will provide methodological implications for other relevant studies. The new conception of quotation and thought-provoking analysis on use/mention, truth-conditional pragmatics, and the semantics/pragmatics boundary in this book will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy of language and linguistics. It will also serve as a clear guide to the current state of quotation studies and how to formulate a semantic theory of quotation.

Author : Li Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351268820

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Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items by Li Chen Pdf

Polarity phenomena are pervasively observed in natural languages. Previous studies on Chinese polarity items are mainly in line with the non-veridicality approach. This book, however, employs the downward-entailing hypothesis as its analytical foundation, and argues that downward entailment is the only licensor for different kinds of Chinese polarity items, and non-veridicality is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition and thus offers inferior explanatory power compared with the former. To begin with, it lays the groundwork for this research by presenting a brief introduction to polarity phenomena and reviewing the existing relevant theories. Then it addresses the status of the commonly used element dou in Chinese. Specifically, it applies the tripartite structural frame to the studies of dou, and examines the role of dou in licensing the polarity items. Moreover, it investigates the properties and behavior of dou with respect to modality. Based on the analysis above, it observes that non-interrogative wh-indeterminates in Chinese can be licensed in the restriction domain of a necessity operator. Also, the non-uniformity of three Chinese polarity items, i.e., shenme, na-CL, and renhe, is scrutinized within the downward-entailing framework. This book will appeal to scholars, teachers and students in the field of linguistics, especially in the areas of formal semantics and generative grammar. Researchers and engineers in cloud computing and big data who are seeking help from linguistic contributions to meaning and logic will also benefit from it.

Author : Tania Ionin,Silvina Montrul,Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003823506

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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics by Tania Ionin,Silvina Montrul,Roumyana Slabakova Pdf

This handbook provides innovative and comprehensive coverage of research on the second language acquisition (SLA) of morphosyntax, semantics, and the interface between the two. Organized by grammatical topic, the chapters are written by experts from formal and functional perspectives in the SLA of morphosyntax and semantics, providing in-depth yet accessible coverage of these areas. All chapters highlight the theoretical underpinnings of much work in SLA and their links to theoretical syntax and semantics; making comparisons to other populations, including child language acquirers, bilinguals, and heritage speakers (links to first language acquisition and bilingualism); dedicating a portion of each chapter to the research methods used to investigate the linguistic phenomenon in question (links to psycholinguistics and experimental linguistics); and, where relevant, including intervention studies on the phenomenon in question (links to applied linguistics). The volume will be indispensable to SLA researchers and students who work on any aspect of the SLA of morphosyntax or semantics. With its coverage of a variety of methodologies and comparisons to other populations (such as child language acquirers, early bilinguals, heritage speakers, and monolingual adults), the handbook is expected to also be of much interest to linguists who work in psycholinguistics, first language acquisition, and bilingualism.

Author : Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118584439

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The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition by Kimberly L. Geeslin Pdf

Bringing together a comprehensive collection of newly-commissioned articles, this Handbook covers the most recent developments across a range of sub-fields relevant to the study of second language Spanish. Provides a unique and much-needed collection of new research in this subject, compiled and written by experts in the field Offers a critical account of the most current, ground-breaking developments across key fields, each of which has seen innovative empirical research in the past decade Covers a broad range of issues including current theoretical approaches, alongside a variety of entries within such areas as the sound system, morphosyntax, individual and social factors, and instructed language learning Presents a variety of methodological approaches spanning the active areas of research in language acquisition

Author : Richard Towell,Roger D. Hawkins
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 185359234X

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Approaches to Second Language Acquisition by Richard Towell,Roger D. Hawkins Pdf

Examines five central issues of second-language acquisition: transfer, staged development, cross-learner systematicity, incompleteness and variability.

Author : Pilar Guerrero Medina
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 1845537440

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Morphosyntactic Alternations in English by Pilar Guerrero Medina Pdf

This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of "diathesis alternations" --broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as "alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaning" --i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or constructionist frameworks. The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg's Construction Grammar or Fillmore's Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theories¬¬ --derivational and non-derivational-- will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion.

Author : Catherine Doughty,Jessica Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521623901

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Focus on Form in Classroom Second Language Acquisition by Catherine Doughty,Jessica Williams Pdf

This volume examines theoretical foundations, empirical research, and pedagogical implementations of focus on form. Traditional language teaching can result in limited fluency, whereas communicative approaches tend to produce fluency with less accuracy. This book presents a potential solution to this dilemma. The hardback edition respects students' "internal linguistic syllabus" by drawing their attention to problematic linguistic features during communicative activities, thus providing an alternative to methodologies that treat accuracy and fluency separately. This volume examines theoretical foundations, empirical research, and a range of possible pedagogical implementations.

Author : Irving B. Weiner,Richard M. Lerner,M. Ann Easterbrooks,Jayanthi Mistry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470768860

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Handbook of Psychology, Developmental Psychology by Irving B. Weiner,Richard M. Lerner,M. Ann Easterbrooks,Jayanthi Mistry Pdf

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015082769798

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131546330

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010536807

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024573565

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Language and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

"Abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics and language-related research, book abstracts, book review listings, and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations." Related disciplines such as anthropology, education, ethnology, information science, medicine, and communications are covered. Also includes some reference to papers in publishedconference proceedings.

Author : Åshild Næss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292216

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Prototypical Transitivity by Åshild Næss Pdf

This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be defined, as well as how this definition can be employed in the analysis of a number of phenomena of language, such as case-marking, experiencer constructions, and so-called ambitransitives. Also discussed is how a prototype analysis relates to other approaches to transitivity, such as that based on markedness. The basic claim is that transitivity is iconic: a construction with two distinct, independent arguments is prototypically used to refer to an event with two distinct, independent participants. From this principle, a unified account of the properties typically associated with transitivity can be derived, and an explanation for why these properties tend to correlate across languages can be given.

Author : Edith L. Bavin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107605423

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The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language by Edith L. Bavin Pdf

The best survey of the subject available, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other handbook on the market, with chapters covering both theories and methods in child language research and tracing the development of language from prelinguistic infancy to teenager. Drawing on both established and more recent research, the Handbook surveys the crosslinguistic study of language acquisition; prelinguistic development; bilingualism; sign languages; specific language impairment, language and autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. This book will be an essential reference for students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, speech pathology, education and anthropology.