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The Acquisition of Dutch

Author : Steven Gillis,Annick De Houwer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250650

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The Acquisition of Dutch by Steven Gillis,Annick De Houwer Pdf

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions and its focus on providing a solid basis for cross-linguistic comparisons will be of interest to linguists and psycholinguists studying child language everywhere.The volume consists of four thematic chapters preceded by an introductory overview. The thematic chapters cover early speech development in the first year of life, the acquisition of phonology, the lexicon and syntax. The consolidated list of references cover most of the work on Dutch child language in the last few decades.

The Acquisition of Dutch

Author : Steven Gillis,Annick De Houwer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285553

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The Acquisition of Dutch by Steven Gillis,Annick De Houwer Pdf

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions and its focus on providing a solid basis for cross-linguistic comparisons will be of interest to linguists and psycholinguists studying child language everywhere.The volume consists of four thematic chapters preceded by an introductory overview. The thematic chapters cover early speech development in the first year of life, the acquisition of phonology, the lexicon and syntax. The consolidated list of references cover most of the work on Dutch child language in the last few decades.

Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference

Author : Sergio Baauw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136711404

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Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference by Sergio Baauw Pdf

This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.

The Acquisition of Gender

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258397

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The Acquisition of Gender by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display semantic and/or formal gender systems with various degrees of opacity and complexity, and even closely related languages present distinct differences, creating difficulties for second language learners. The first three chapters of this volume present critical reviews in three different areas – gender assignment in mixed noun phrases, subtle gentle biases and the gender acquisition in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish – while the next six chapters present new empirical evidence in the acquisition of gender by bilingual children, adult L2/L3 learners and heritage speakers of various languages such as Italian, German, Dutch or Mandarin-Italian.

The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization

Author : S.M. Powers,C. Hamann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401732321

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The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization by S.M. Powers,C. Hamann Pdf

This collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. While observations on the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics can be found in the literature, up until the recent past they were sparse and often buried in other issues. This volume fills a long-existing gap in providing a collection of articles which focus on language acquisition but at the same time address the overarching syntactic issues involved (for example, the X-bar status of clitics, base-generation vs. movement accounts of scrambling). This volume contains an overview of L1 (and, in one case, L2) acquisition data from a number of different languages including Bernese, Swiss, German, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, as well as from several theoretical points of view with these two clause-internal processes at its center. These language acquisition data are considered to be crucial in the validation of analyses of these specific linguistic phenomena in adult grammars. The contributions in this volume include the earliest thoughts in this vein and, for this reason, should be viewed as a starting point for discussions within theoretical linguistics and language acquisition alike.

The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth

Author : Annick de Houwer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521366526

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The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth by Annick de Houwer Pdf

This study's main aim is to explore the nature of early bilingual morphosyntactic development.

Acquisition of Reading in Dutch

Author : Pieter Reitsma,Ludo Verhoeven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110869187

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Acquisition of Reading in Dutch by Pieter Reitsma,Ludo Verhoeven Pdf

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

The Acquisition of Word Order

Author : Marit Richardsen Westergaard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255280

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The Acquisition of Word Order by Marit Richardsen Westergaard Pdf

Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. Thus, within a split-CP model of clause structure, a number of "micro-cues" are formulated, taking into account the specific context for V2 vs. non-V2 (clause type, subcategory of the elements involved, etc.). The micro-cues are produced in children s I-language grammars on exposure to the relevant input. Focusing on a dialect of Norwegian, the book shows that children generally produce target-consistent V2 and non-V2 from early on, indicating that they are sensitive to the micro-cues. This includes contexts where word order is dependent on information structure. The children s occasional non-target-consistent behavior is accounted for by economy principles."

The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar:

Author : Natalia Gagarina,Insa Gülzow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402043352

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The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: by Natalia Gagarina,Insa Gülzow Pdf

This volume investigates the linguistic development of children with regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. The selection of papers brings to researchers and in particular psycholinguists empirical evidence from a wide variety of languages from Hebrew, through English to Estonian. The authors interpret their findings with a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach.

The Acquisition of Temporality in a Second Language

Author : Rainer Dietrich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027241092

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The Acquisition of Temporality in a Second Language by Rainer Dietrich Pdf

This is the second volume of the SiBil series to present results from the European Science Foundation's project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. It deals specifically with the acquisition of temporality in five European languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Swedish, providing a detailed account of how adult learners who have little or no exposure to classroom teaching, express temporality at any given stage of the acquisition process, how they proceed from one stage to the next, and what factors determine both their progress and their final levels of proficiency. The guiding hypotheses, methodology, and theoretical framework for analysing temporality from a cross-linguistic perspective are given in Chapters 1 and 2. The detailed longitudinal analyses of Chapters 3-7 form the backbone of the book. Chapter 8 contains the cross-linguistic generalizations, the factors which account for them, and the wider theoretical implications of the study.

The Acquisition of Diminutives

Author : Ineta Savickien?,Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292896

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The Acquisition of Diminutives by Ineta Savickien?,Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These languages differ in various aspects relevant for the acquisition of diminutives and the development of pragmatics in early child language. Diminutive formation often tends to be the first pattern of word formation to emerge. The main reason for this seems to lie in the pragmatic functions of endearment, empathy, and sympathy, which make diminutives particularly appropriate for child-centred communication. A main topic of this book is the relation of emergence and early development between diminutives and other categories of word formation and inflection. The greater degree of morphological productivity and transparency, as well as phonological saliency, favors the use of diminutives. In this case diminutives may facilitate the acquisition of inflection.

The Morphology of Dutch

Author : Geert Booij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192575555

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The Morphology of Dutch by Geert Booij Pdf

This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the morphological system of Dutch. Following an introduction to the basic assumptions of morphological theory, separate chapters are devoted to the inflectional system, derivation, and compounding, the interface between morphology and phonology, the interaction between morphology and syntax, and, new to this edition, a more detailed study of the features of separable complex verbs. Geert Booij demonstrates in this book that the morphology of Dutch poses multiple interesting descriptive and theoretical challenges. The volume also contributes to ongoing discussions on the nature and representation of morphological processes, the role of paradigmatic relations between words - and between words and phrases - and the interaction between morphology, phonology, and syntax. This second, fully revised edition has been updated throughout with expanded coverage of Dutch morphological phenomena and results from new research. Alongside a brand new chapter on separable complex verbs, it also includes a more sophisticated analysis of the relation between morphology and syntax, and an introduction to the basic tenets of Construction Morphology.

The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages

Author : Vincent Torrens,Linda Escobar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253019

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The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages by Vincent Torrens,Linda Escobar Pdf

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturation of general principles universal to all languages. They all depart from the view that language acquisition can be explained in terms of learning language specific rules, constraints or structures. The different parts into which this volume is organized reflect different approaches that current research has offered, which deal with issues of development of reflexive pronouns, determiners, clitics, verbs, auxiliaries, Inflection, wh-movement, rssumptive pronouns, topic and focus, mood, the syntax/discourse interface, topic and focus, and null arguments.

The Dawn of Dutch

Author : Michiel de Vaan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264503

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The Dawn of Dutch by Michiel de Vaan Pdf

The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.

The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

Author : Kristof Baten
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271709

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The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners by Kristof Baten Pdf

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position to marking the argument’s actual function. Theoretically couched within Processability Theory, the book deals with the feature unification and the mapping processes involved in case marking, and critically examines previous findings on German case acquisition. Empirically, the book consists of longitudinal data of 11 foreign language learners of German, which was collected over a period of 2 years. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of German and in the acquisition of case systems in general.