Factivity Its Nature And Acquisition

Author : Petra Schulz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110929546

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Factivity: Its Nature and Acquisition by Petra Schulz Pdf

Challenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents a compositional approach to the concept of factivity and its acquisition. Factive sentences such as 'John forgot that he bought wine' presuppose the truth of the embedded complement. The author argues that a satisfactory characterization of factivity can only be accomplished if its multiple dimensions are acknowledged. A thorough examination of the empirical data demonstrates that factivity, rather than being a property of the matrix predicate, results from the complex interaction of lexical-semantic, syntactic, and discourse-semantic factors. Focusing on English, the predictions of this compositional approach to factivity are tested with production and comprehension data covering children's acquisitional patterns between the ages of 2 and 8. After a comprehensive review of previous studies, the author presents two rigorously designed comprehension experiments and a detailed analysis of two longitudinal corpora. The child data provides convincing evidence that the multidimensionality of factivity is mirrored in the acquisition process by a stepwise mastery of its different components. Children produce and correctly interpret factive structures around age 4, but certain syntactic and discourse-semantic properties are not learned before age 7. This book should be of interest to advanced students and researchers in both theoretical linguistics and language acquisition.

Author : Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Cristina Suárez-Gómez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789402419320

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New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Cristina Suárez-Gómez Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition. The book explores a broad mix of methodologies and issues in contemporary research. The text presents original research from several different perspectives, and provides a basis for dialogue between researchers working on diverse projects with the aim of furthering our understanding of how languages are acquired. The book proposes and refines new theoretical constructs, e.g. regarding the complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’ and bilingual individuals’ acquisition of morphological, syntactic, discursive, pragmatic, lexical and phonological structures. It appeals to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.

Author : Pedro Guijarro Fuentes,María Pilar Larrañaga,John Clibbens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253064

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First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax by Pedro Guijarro Fuentes,María Pilar Larrañaga,John Clibbens Pdf

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers (French, German, Spanish) and less frequently spoken ones (Norwegian, Russian, Swiss-German, Hebrew, Basque and Serbo-Croatian) within different language acquisition scenarios and a wide range of populations. Most contributions adopt a common theoretical background within the generative approach with the aim to advance, discuss and critically analyse other research on first, bilingual and language impaired acquisition. The various sections of this stimulating volume reflect different theoretical and methodological perspectives of current research investigating morphology and syntax and offer diverging interpretations.

Author : Cornelia Hamann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443884136

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Language Acquisition and Development by Cornelia Hamann Pdf

This edited collection contains 34 papers originally presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) conference in 2013, held in Oldenburg, Germany. It represents theoretically guided, high quality work, and provides impressive insights into state-of-the-art research in the fields of first and second language acquisition and developmental impairments. The studies brought together here cover a wide variety of different (mainly European) languages, focusing on the areas of phonology, morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Since their first publication, the proceedings of GALA have become an invaluable reference for cutting-edge research in First and Second Language Acquisition and its impairments – and this volume continues that tradition.

Author : Jeffrey Lidz,William Snyder,Joe Pater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191644948

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The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics by Jeffrey Lidz,William Snyder,Joe Pater Pdf

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. The book places language acquisition phenomena in a richly linguistic and comparative context, highlighting the link between linguistic theory, language development, and theories of learning. The book is divided into six parts. Parts I and II examine the acquisition of phonology and morphology respectively, with chapters covering topics such as phonotactics and syllable structure, prosodic phenomena, compound word formation, and processing continuous speech. Part III moves on to the acquisition of syntax, including argument structure, questions, mood alternations, and possessives. In Part IV, chapters consider semantic aspects of language acquisition, including the expression of genericity, quantification, and scalar implicature. Finally, Parts V and VI look at theories of learning and aspects of atypical language development respectively.

Author : Andreas Trotzke,Josef Bayer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614517900

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Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces by Andreas Trotzke,Josef Bayer Pdf

Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.

Author : Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198844303

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Rethinking Verb Second by Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe Pdf

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Author : VICTORIA. FENDEL,Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Greek language
ISBN : 9780192869173

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Coptic Interference in the Greek Letters from Egypt by VICTORIA. FENDEL,Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel Pdf

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt. The primary object of interest is bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames. The study is based on a corpus of Greek and Coptic private letters on papyrus, which date from the fourth to mid-seventh centuries, originate from Egypt and belong to bilingual, Greek-Coptic, papyrus archives.

Author : Chris Cummins,Napoleon Katsos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192509543

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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics by Chris Cummins,Napoleon Katsos Pdf

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research. Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UCSC:32106015842138

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Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015064843108

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Linguistische Berichte by Anonim Pdf

Author : William C. Ritchie,Tej K. Bhatia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848552401

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The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition by William C. Ritchie,Tej K. Bhatia Pdf

"The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition" is a thoroughly revised, re-organized, and re-worked edition of Ritchie and Bhatia's 1996 handbook. The work is divided into six parts, each devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA. Part I includes a recent history of methods used in SLA research and an overview of currently used methods. Part II contains chapters on Universal Grammar, emergentism, variationism, information-processing, sociocultural, and cognitive-linguistic. Part III is devoted to overviews of SLA research on lexicon, morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics, sentence processing, and the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge. Part IV examines neuropsycholgy of SLA, another on child SLA, and the effects of age on second language acquisition and use. Part V is concerned with the contribution of the linguistic environment to SLA, including work on acquisition in different environments, through the Internet, and by deaf learners. Finally, Part VI treats social factors in SLA, including research on acquisition in contact circumstances, on social identity in SLA, on individual differences in SLA, and on the final state of SLA, bilingualism.

Author : Marysia Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300129410

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A Philosophy of Second Language Acquisition by Marysia Johnson Pdf

divdivHow does a person learn a second language? In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new model of second language acquisition (SLA)—a model that shifts the focus from language competence (the ability to pass a language exam) to language performance (using language competently in real-life contexts). Johnson argues that current SLA theory and research is heavily biased in the direction of the cognitive and experimental scientific tradition. She shows that most models of SLA are linear in nature and subscribe to the conduit metaphor of knowledge transfer: the speaker encodes a message, the hearer decodes the sent message. Such models establish a strict demarcation between learners’ mental and social processes. Yet the origin of second language acquisition is located not exclusively in the learner’s mind but also in a dialogical interaction conducted in a variety of sociocultural and institutional settings, says the author. Drawing on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and Bakhtin’s literary theory, she constructs an alternative framework for second language theory, research, teaching, and testing. This approach directs attention toward the investigation of dynamic and dialectical relationships between the interpersonal (social) plane and the intrapersonal (individual) plane. Johnson’s model shifts the focus of SLA away from a narrow emphasis on language competence toward a broader view that encompasses the interaction between language competence and performance. Original and controversial, A Philosophy of Second Language Acquisition offers: · an introduction to Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and Bakhtin’s literary theory, both of which support an alternative framework for second language acquisition; · an examination of the existing cognitive bias in SLA theory and research; · a radically new model of second language acquisition. /DIV/DIV

Author : Philippe de Brabanter,Mikhail Kissine
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848556508

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Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models by Philippe de Brabanter,Mikhail Kissine Pdf

Reconciles armchair theorising about the semantics-pragmatics interface with hypotheses about cognitive architecture. This book concerns with the cognitive counterparts of lexical meanings. It also explores the links between moods and forces. It looks at the epistemological status of semantic theory from the point of view of human psychology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UOM:39015066254890

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The Linguistic Review by Anonim Pdf