The Acquisition Of Mauritian Creole

Author : Dany Adone
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281746

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The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole by Dany Adone Pdf

This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian Creole, in common with many Creole languages, emerged under extreme conditions and, as an isolating language, Mauritian Creole is typologically different from languages where syntax is predominantly tied to morphology. There is thus an opportunity to broaden perspectives on language acquisition since until now most work has focused on languages such as English, French, German, Italian. The analysis proceeds within the GB framework of generative grammar, and discussion emanates from psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and theoretical linguistic viewpoints. The data also provide a means for evaluating Bickerton's theory, especially his conclusion that the acquisition of radical Creoles takes place with fewer errors than is the case for other languages, given that Creole languages are in harmony with the 'Bioprogram'.

Author : Dany Adone
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224743

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The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole by Dany Adone Pdf

This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian Creole, in common with many Creole languages, emerged under extreme conditions and, as an isolating language, Mauritian Creole is typologically different from languages where syntax is predominantly tied to morphology. There is thus an opportunity to broaden perspectives on language acquisition since until now most work has focused on languages such as English, French, German, Italian. The analysis proceeds within the GB framework of generative grammar, and discussion emanates from psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and theoretical linguistic viewpoints. The data also provide a means for evaluating Bickerton's theory, especially his conclusion that the acquisition of radical Creoles takes place with fewer errors than is the case for other languages, given that Creole languages are in harmony with the 'Bioprogram'.

Author : Anand Syea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : 1472542169

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The Syntax of Mauritian Creole by Anand Syea Pdf

Author : Dany Adone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139510264

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The Acquisition of Creole Languages by Dany Adone Pdf

How do children acquire a Creole as their first language? This relatively underexplored question is the starting point for this first book of its kind; it also asks how first language acquisition of a Creole differs from that of a non-Creole language. Dany Adone reveals that in the absence of a conventional language model, Creole children acquire language and go beyond the input they receive. This study discusses the role of input, a hotly debated issue in the field of first language acquisition, and provides support for the nativist approach in the debate between nativism and input-based models. The Acquisition of Creole Languages will be essential reading for those in the fields of First Language Acquisition and Creole Studies. Adone takes an interdisciplinary approach, and uses insights from the acquisition of language in the visual modality, making this of great interest to those in the field of Sign Linguistics.

Author : Dany Adone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521199650

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The Acquisition of Creole Languages by Dany Adone Pdf

The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.

Author : Michel DeGraff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0262041685

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Language Creation and Language Change by Michel DeGraff Pdf

Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.Contributors : Dany Adone, Derek Bickerton, Adrienne Bruyn, Marie Coppola, Michel DeGraff, Viviane D�prez, Alison Henry, Judy Kegl, David Lightfoot, John S. Lumsden, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Pieter Muysken, Elissa L. Newport, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Ann Senghas, Rex A. Sprouse, Denise Tangney, Anne Vainikka, Barbara S. Vance, Maaike Verrips.

Author : Harald Clahsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224804

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Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition by Harald Clahsen Pdf

Part of the "Language Acquisition and Language Disorders" series, this te×t covers such topics as: the underspecification of functional categories in early grammar; and the role of merger theory and formal features in acquisition.

Author : Anand Syea
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441156389

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The Syntax of Mauritian Creole by Anand Syea Pdf

A detailed study of different aspects of the syntax of Mauritian creole within a Chomksyan theoretical framework

Author : Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444305999

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The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies by Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler Pdf

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

Author : Tej K. Bhatia,William C. Ritchie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004653023

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Handbook of Child Language Acquisition by Tej K. Bhatia,William C. Ritchie Pdf

What allows children to acquire language so effortlessly, with such speed, and with such amazing accuracy? Capitalizing on the most recent developments in linguistics and cognitive psychology, this volume sheds new light on the what, why, and how of the child's ability to acquire one or more languages. The "Handbook" is one of a kind in a number of respects. It includes state-of-the-art treatments of acquisition from a variety of theoretical viewpoints ranging from functionalist approaches and the implications of the creolization of languages for the study of acquisition to the relevance of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It contains overviews of the acquisition of all components of linguistic structure, treats the acquisition of the sign languages of the deaf, and discusses the specific problems of bilingual acquisition. This handbook addresses the following questions: 'Is the capacity for language acquisition constant throughout the career of the language learner (that is, is it 'continuous') or does that capacity change in significant ways as the learner matures?' ; 'Is the language capacity a separate module of the mind or does it follow from general, 'all-purpose' cognitive capacities?'; 'What is innate in language acquisition and what is acquired on the basis of experience?'; 'What research/methodological issues arise in the study of child language acquisition?'; 'How might input from the language (or languages) of the environment, including visual/gestural input in the case of the sign languages of the deaf, affect the process and result of acquisition?'; and, 'How are the facts of non-normal acquisition to be explained?'

Author : Stanford University. Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216809413

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Guide to Pidgin & Creole Acquisitions by Stanford University. Libraries Pdf

Author : Michelle Aldridge
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853593168

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Child Language by Michelle Aldridge Pdf

Comprises 17 papers presented at the Child Language Seminar, Bangor 1994, with contributions in areas as diverse as bilingual development, phonological disorders, sign language development, and the language of Down's syndrome children.

Author : Umberto Ansaldo,Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000221480

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The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Umberto Ansaldo,Miriam Meyerhoff Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a rich socio-historical context, this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into three sections, its analysis covers: Space and place – areal perspective on pidgin and creole languages Usage, function and power – sociolinguistic and artistic perspectives on pidgins and creoles, creoles as sociocultural phenomena Framing of the study of pidgin and creole languages – history of the field, interdisciplinary connections Demonstrating how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are, how rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.

Author : Laura L. Paterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003802532

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The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns by Laura L. Paterson Pdf

This original volume provides the first state-of-the-art overview of research on pronouns in the 21st century. With its dedicated sections on grammar, history, and change, language learning/acquisition, cognition and comprehension, power, politics, and identity, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns shows that contemporary interest in pronouns and gender represents just the tip of the iceberg. Led by Laura Paterson, a transdisciplinary collection of experts discuss the global history of different pronoun systems, synthesize the literature, and contextualize the salient issues and current debates shaping research on pronouns across different spheres and via different theoretical-methodological traditions. The Handbook is designed to encourage readers to engage with a range of perspectives from within and beyond their immediate areas of interest, with the ultimate aim of shaping the future trajectory of interdisciplinary, multiingual research on pronouns. Using data from multiple languages and engaging deeply with the social, cultural, political, technological, and psychological factors that can influence pronoun use, this innovative book will be an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of theoretical and applied linguistics, education, and the social and behavioural sciences.

Author : Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298201

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Telicity in the Second Language by Roumyana Slabakova Pdf

The author combines a syntax-theoretical treatment of telicity marking and an empirical study of the second language acquisition of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language. It is argued that Vendler’s lexical classes of verbs (states, activities, accomplishments and achievements) can be represented in four phrase structure templates, where lexical properties of the verb and of the object compositionally determine telicity. A parameterized distinction between English and Slavic aspect is proposed. The book addresses two major acquisition issues: (1) what is the nature of the initial hypothesis Bulgarian learners of English entertain regarding telicity marking (i.e., is there native language transfer)? (2) are adult learners capable of resetting the telicity marking parameter? Both L1 transfer and parameter resetting are experimentally supported. In addition, the study investigates the L2 acquisition of a cluster of complex predicate constructions, purportedly related to the telicity parameter in the grammatical competence and in child language acquisition of English.