Sources Of Variation In First Language Acquisition

Author : Maya Hickmann,Edy Veneziano,Harriet Jisa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265326

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Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition by Maya Hickmann,Edy Veneziano,Harriet Jisa Pdf

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of variation: language-specific properties, the nature of the input to children across contexts, and several aspects of the learners themselves. Chapters explore these sources of variation within an interdisciplinary and comparative approach allying theories and methodologies stemming from linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. The comparative perspective involves different languages, contexts of use, types of learners (first/second language acquisition, monolingual/bilingual learners, autism, language impairment), as well as vocal and visuo-gestural communicative modalities (co-verbal gestures, sign language acquisition). The volume points to the need to enhance interdisciplinary research using complementary methodologies to further examine sources of variation and to integrate variation into a more general developmental theory.

Author : Inbal Arnon,Eve V. Clark
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027234773

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Experience, Variation and Generalization by Inbal Arnon,Eve V. Clark Pdf

Are all children exposed to the same linguistic input, and do they follow the same route in acquisition? The answer is no: The language that children hear differs even within a social class or cultural setting, as do the paths individual children take. The linguistic signal itself is also variable, both within and across speakers - the same sound is different across words; the same speech act can be realized with different constructions. The challenge here is to explain, given their diversity of experience, how children arrive at similar generalizations about their first language. This volume brings together studies of phonology, morphology, and syntax in development, to present a new perspective on how experience and variation shape children's linguistic generalizations. The papers deal with variation in forms, learning processes, and speaker features, and assess the impact of variation on the mechanisms and outcomes of language learning.

Author : Robert Bayley,Dennis R. Preston
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282774

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Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation by Robert Bayley,Dennis R. Preston Pdf

This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth. These studies bolster the idea that a full account of SLA development (and, hence, a “theory of SLA”) must be built on not only detailed accounts of interlanguage data but also on a wide appeal to factors which govern the psycholinguistic bases of SLA. An important addition to the volume is a comprehensive guide to both the DOS and Macintosh versions of the VARBRUL statistical program used by variationists.

Author : Inbal Arnon,Eve V. Clark
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285041

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Experience, Variation and Generalization by Inbal Arnon,Eve V. Clark Pdf

Are all children exposed to the same linguistic input, and do they follow the same route in acquisition? The answer is no: The language that children hear differs even within a social class or cultural setting, as do the paths individual children take. The linguistic signal itself is also variable, both within and across speakers - the same sound is different across words; the same speech act can be realized with different constructions. The challenge here is to explain, given their diversity of experience, how children arrive at similar generalizations about their first language. This volume brings together studies of phonology, morphology, and syntax in development, to present a new perspective on how experience and variation shape children's linguistic generalizations. The papers deal with variation in forms, learning processes, and speaker features, and assess the impact of variation on the mechanisms and outcomes of language learning.

Author : David Ingram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521349168

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First Language Acquisition by David Ingram Pdf

This major textbook, setting new standards of clarity and comprehensiveness, will be welcomed by all serious students of first language acquisition. Written from a linguistic perspective, it provides detailed accounts of the development of children's receptive and productive abilities in all the core areas of language - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. With a critical acuity drawn from long experience, and without attempting to offer a survey of all the huge mass of child language literature, David Ingram directs students to the fundamental studies and sets these in broad perspective. Students are thereby introduced to the history of the field and the current state of our knowledge in respect of three main themes: method, description and explanation. Whilst the descriptive facts that are currently available on first language acquisition are central to the book, its emphasis on methodology and explanation gives it a particular distinction. The various ways in which research is conducted is discussed in detail, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, leading to new perspectives on key theoretical issues. First Language Acquisition provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students alike with a cogent and closely analysed exposition of how children acquire language in real time. Equally importantly, readers will have acquired the fundamental knowledge and skill not only to interpret primary literature but also to approach their own research with sophistication.

Author : Anna Ghimenton,Aurélie Nardy,Jean-Pierre Chevrot
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259752

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Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan by Anna Ghimenton,Aurélie Nardy,Jean-Pierre Chevrot Pdf

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive approaches to language acquisition. The book integrates sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic issues by bringing together scholars who have been developing conceptions of language acquisition across the lifespan that take into account language-internal and cross-linguistic variation in contexts of both first and second language acquisition as well as of first and second dialect acquisition. The volume brings together theoretical and empirical research and provides an excellent basis for scholars and students wanting to delve into the social and cognitive dimensions of both the production and perception of sociolinguistic variation. The book enables the reader to understand, on the one hand, how variation is acquired in childhood or at a later stage and, on the other, how perception and production feed into one another, thus building up our understanding of the social meanings underpinning language variation.

Author : Jessica Horst,Janne von Koss Torkildsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351616614

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International Handbook of Language Acquisition by Jessica Horst,Janne von Koss Torkildsen Pdf

How do children acquire language? How does real life language acquisition differ from results found in controlled environments? And how is modern life challenging established theories? Going far beyond laboratory experiments, the International Handbook of Language Acquisition examines a wide range of topics surrounding language development to shed light on how children acquire language in the real world. The foremost experts in the field cover a variety of issues, from the underlying cognitive processes and role of language input to development of key language dimensions as well as both typical and atypical language development. Horst and Torkildsen balance a theoretical foundation with data acquired from applied settings to offer a truly comprehensive reference book with an international outlook. The International Handbook of Language Acquisition is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in language acquisition across developmental psychology, developmental neuropsychology, linguistics, early childhood education, and communication disorders.

Author : Paul Fletcher,Michael Garman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521277809

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Language Acquisition by Paul Fletcher,Michael Garman Pdf

An invaluable resource for students and professionals alike with an interest in child language acquisition.

Author : Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118301753

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The Handbook of Language Emergence by Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady Pdf

This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever

Author : Susan M. Gass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : LCCN:88025503

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Variation in Second Language Acquisition by Susan M. Gass Pdf

Author : Susan H.Foster- Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317896234

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An Introduction to Child Language Development by Susan H.Foster- Cohen Pdf

This volume introduces the field of child language development studies, and presents hypotheses in an accessible, largely non-technical language, aiming to demonstrate the relationship between these hypotheses and interpretations of data. It makes the assumption that having a theory of language development is as important as having reliable data about what children say and understand, and it advocates a combination of both `rationalist' and more 'empiricist' traditions. In fact, the author overtly argues that different traditions provide different pieces of the picture, and that taking any single approach is unlikely to lead to productive understanding. Susan Foster-Cohen explores a range of issues, including the nature of prelinguistic communication and its possible relationship to linguistic development; early stages of language development and how they can be viewed in the light of later developments; the nature and role of children's experience with the language(s) around them; variations in language development due to both pathological and non-pathological differences between children, and (in the latter case) between the languages they learn; later oral language development; and literacy. The approach is distinctly psycholinguistic and linguistic rather than sociolinguistic, although there is significant treatment of issues which intersect with more sociolinguistic concerns (e.g. literacy, language play, and bilingualism). There are exercises and discussion questions throughout, designed to reinforce the ideas being presented, as well as to offer the student the opportunity to think beyond the text to ideas at the cutting edge of research. The accessible presentation of key issues will appeal to the intended undergraduate readership, and will be of interest to those taking courses in language development, linguistics, developmental psychology, educational linguistics, and speech pathology. The book will also serve as a useful introduction to students wishing to pursue post-graduate courses which deal with child language development.

Author : Michelle D. Devereaux,Chris C. Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429943676

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Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom by Michelle D. Devereaux,Chris C. Palmer Pdf

Bringing together the varied and multifaceted expertise of teachers and linguists in one accessible volume, this book presents practical tools, grounded in cutting-edge research, for teaching about language and language diversity in the ELA classroom. By demonstrating practical ways teachers can implement research-driven linguistic concepts in their own teaching environment, each chapter offers real-world lessons as well as clear methods for instructing students on the diversity of language. Written for pre-service and in-service teachers, this book includes easy-to-use lesson plans, pedagogical strategies and activities, as well as a wealth of resources carefully designed to optimize student comprehension of language variation.

Author : Susan M. Gass
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106009367530

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Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Discourse and pragmatics by Susan M. Gass Pdf

This book presents a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. It makes important contributions to methodological and theoretical issues in SLA, as well as to the role of these issues in general linguistics.

Author : Caroline F. Rowland,Anna L. Theakston,Ben Ambridge,Katherine E. Twomey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261007

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Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition by Caroline F. Rowland,Anna L. Theakston,Ben Ambridge,Katherine E. Twomey Pdf

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c) learn how to combine these representations in order to communicate effectively. These new findings have stimulated new theoretical perspectives that are more centered on explaining learning as a complex dynamic interaction between the child and her environment. This book is the first attempt to bring some of these new perspectives together in one place. It is a collection of essays written by a group of researchers who all take an approach centered on child-environment interaction, and all of whom have been influenced by the work of Elena Lieven, to whom this collection is dedicated.

Author : Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259769

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Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition by Bronwen Patricia Dyson Pdf

Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered stages of language acquisition, the book provides an informative, critical analysis of historical and contemporary debates about the role of variation in linguistic variation, particularly second language variation. Richly illustrated with a forensic year-long study of how eight adolescent learners of English vary in their acquisition of syntax and morphology, this monograph shows that learners vary in their timing of development between two distinct learner types along a continuum and without skipping stages. The book uncovers how learner variation is dynamic and quite (although not entirely) systematic and how this variation contributes to change in the second language. It will be essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners.