The Acquisition Of Complex Sentences

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139454087

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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences by Holger Diessel Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows that the development of complex sentences originates from simple non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the social-cognitive development of the child.

Author : Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225850

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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse by Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan Pdf

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.

Author : Lois Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521435838

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Language Development from Two to Three by Lois Bloom Pdf

The studies in this book cover a range of topics in child language development, including: acquistion of semantic-syntactic relations, negation, verb inflections, questions, syntactic connectives, complementation, causality, imitation, and discourse contigency. Of special interest is the development of verb subcategorization, and the importance of action, locative, epistemic, and perception verbs in particular. Language Development from Two to Three will be of interest to a range of readers in psychology, linguistics, early childhood education, speech and language pathology, and second language learing.

Author : Evan Kidd
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027234780

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The Acquisition of Relative Clauses by Evan Kidd Pdf

Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse range of theoretical approaches and languages are bought to bear on the acquisition of this construction type, making the volume unique in its coverage. The volume will appeal to students and scholars whose interest lies in the acquisition and processing of syntax with a particular focus on complex sentences in crosslinguistic and functionalist perspective.

Author : Rik van Gijn,Jeremy Hammond,Dejan Mati?,Saskia van Putten,Ana Vilacy Galucio
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270757

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Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences by Rik van Gijn,Jeremy Hammond,Dejan Mati?,Saskia van Putten,Ana Vilacy Galucio Pdf

This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one hand, a complex sentence can be studied as a mini-unit of discourse consisting of two or more elements describing events, situations, or processes, with its own internal information-structural and referential organization. On the other hand, complex sentences can be studied as parts of larger discourse structures, such as narratives or conversations, in terms of how their information-structural characteristics relate to this wider context. The book offers new perspectives for the study of the interaction between complex sentences and information management, and moreover adds typological breadth by focusing on lesser studied languages from several parts of the world.

Author : Edith L. Bavin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 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.

Author : Hannah Sarvasy,Soonja Choi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889662913

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Acquisition of Clause Chaining by Hannah Sarvasy,Soonja Choi Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Manik Joshi
Publisher : Manik Joshi
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences: English Sentence Forms by Manik Joshi Pdf

REVISED EDITION -- FEB 20, 2016 -- Sentence forms in English language - simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, compound-complex sentence | phrases and clauses | independent or principal clause (main clause), dependent or subordinate clause | list of important coordinators and transitional expressions (transitional words or phrases) for compound sentences | list of important subordinators for complex sentences | double and multiple sentences | definition and examples of simple, compound and complex sentences

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 : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107007246

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The Acquisition of Heritage Languages by Silvina Montrul Pdf

An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research methodologies.

Author : Tanya M. Gallagher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489971562

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Pragmatics of Language by Tanya M. Gallagher Pdf

Author : Anastasia Tryphon,Jacques Vonèche
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317775164

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Piaget Vygotsky by Anastasia Tryphon,Jacques Vonèche Pdf

This book is the outcome of a long and passionate debate among world experts about two of the most pivotal figures of psychology: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotksy. The occasion was a week-long advanced course held at the Jean Piaget Archives in Geneva. The most interesting outcome of the meeting is that, in spite of differences in aims and scopes (epistemogenesis versus psychogenesis), in units of analysis (events versus action) and in social contents (Swiss capitalism versus Soviet communism) both Piaget and Vygotsky reached a similar conclusion: knowledge is constructed within a specific material and social context. Moreover, their views complement each other perfectly: where Vygotsky insists on varieties of psychological experiences, Piaget shows how, out of diversity, grows universality, so much so that the most communist of the two is not necessarily the one who was so labelled. This book is not only of interest to developmental, social and learning psychologists, but also deals with issues pertinent to education, epistemology, language, thought and cognition, anthropology and philosophy. It is likely to shed some light on the state of affairs in psychology for the general reader too, because it is clear and precise, straightforward and uses virtually no jargon.

Author : David Ingram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Inbal Arnon,Marisa Casillas,Chigusa Kurumada,Bruno Estigarribia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269256

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Language in Interaction by Inbal Arnon,Marisa Casillas,Chigusa Kurumada,Bruno Estigarribia Pdf

Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the social and pragmatic aspects of language learning: the way interaction shapes what and how children learn. In this volume, we bring together researchers working on interaction in different domains to present a cohesive overview of ongoing interactional research. The studies address the diversity of the environments children learn in; the role of para-linguistic information; the pragmatic forces driving language learning; and the way communicative pressures impact language use and change. Using observational, empirical and computational findings, this volume highlights the effect of interpersonal communication on what children hear and what they learn. This anthology is inspired by and dedicated to Prof. Eve V. Clark – a pioneer in all matters related to language acquisition – and a major force in establishing interaction and communication as crucial aspects of language learning.

Author : Timotheus Adrianus Bodt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004409484

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Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) by Timotheus Adrianus Bodt Pdf

The volume Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) is a comprehensive description of Duhumbi, the language spoken by the Duhumbi (Chugpa, Chug Monpa) people of Dirang circle West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.