The Acquisition Of Numeral Classifiers

Author : Kasumi Yamamoto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110914955

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The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers by Kasumi Yamamoto Pdf

The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of two parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses problems in determining what constitutes the nature of classifiers. It also discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families. Second, it examines the acquisitions of Japanese numeral classifiers by Japanese preschool children, ages 3 to 6, with a primary emphasis on the development of comprehension. The importance of the study is that it reveals that young children have a much greater sensitivity to the conceptual underpinnings of the numeral classifier system than was previously considered to be the case. The research results also provide a converging source of evidence that young children often come to initially grasp the structure of the world in ways that are better understood in cognitive than perceptual terms. The implications will contribute to not only the area of language acquisition but also categorization and conceptual development.

Author : Kees De Bot,Wander Lowie,Marjolyn Verspoor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415338697

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Second Language Acquisition by Kees De Bot,Wander Lowie,Marjolyn Verspoor Pdf

Second Language Acquisition : introduces the key areas in the field, including: multilingualism, the role of teaching, the mental processing of multiple languages, and patterns of growth and decline explores the key theories and debates and elucidates areas of controversy gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Vivian Cook, William E. Dunn and James P. Lantolf, S.P. Corder, and Nina Spada and Patsy Lightbown. Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Second Language Acquisition is an essential resource for students and researchers of applied linguistics.

Author : Ursula Stephany,M. D. Voeĭkova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9783110188400

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Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition by Ursula Stephany,M. D. Voeĭkova Pdf

The crosslinguistic studies of the early developmental stages of number, case, and gender in twelve typologically different languages with eight genetic affiliations follow a functional-constructivist approach. Some issues addressed are mean size of paradigms, percentage of base forms, and productivity. One of the main findings is that the typological characteristics of the language acquired influence the process of inflectional development.

Author : Heather Winskel,Prakash Padakannaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107017764

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South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics by Heather Winskel,Prakash Padakannaya Pdf

This groundbreaking volume explores the languages of South and Southeast Asia, which differ significantly from Indo-European languages in their grammar, lexicon and spoken forms. This book raises new questions in psycholinguistics and enables readers to re-evaluate previous models in light of new research.

Author : Dan Isaac Slobin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language acquisition
ISBN : 0898593670

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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition by Dan Isaac Slobin Pdf

Author : Lynne Hansen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281661

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Second Language Acquisition Abroad by Lynne Hansen Pdf

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies devoted to missionary language learning and retention. Introductory chapters provide historical perspectives on this population and on language teaching philosophy and practice in the LDS tradition. The empirical studies which follow are divided into two sections, the first examining mission language acquisition by English-speaking missionaries abroad, the second focusing on post-mission language attrition. These chapters by internationally known scholars offer cutting-edge research using a number of different target languages in addressing various issues in second language development. Finally, a comprehensive bibliography of sources on mission languages is included. The readership of this pioneering work is expected to extend beyond specialists in study abroad and missionary language training to a broader audience of applied linguists, educators, and students interested in language acquisition and attrition. In addition, the book offers useful insights to adults who want to maintain a second language.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191543982

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Classifiers by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Pdf

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.

Author : Chungmin Lee,Greg B. Simpson,Youngjin Kim,Ping Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107503786

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Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics by Chungmin Lee,Greg B. Simpson,Youngjin Kim,Ping Li Pdf

This handbook presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Korean.

Author : Daniel Hole,Elisabeth Löbel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110289411

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Linguistics of Vietnamese by Daniel Hole,Elisabeth Löbel Pdf

The present collection of articles grew out of a workshop on Vietnamese linguistics in 2009 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. To our knowledge, no workshop with a comparable scope has been held outside of Vietnam for the past 20 years, or even longer. Given the important typological status of Vietnamese as a paradigm case of an isolating language, the volume covers the most relevant fields in linguistics: syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon. A guiding principle in assembling the chapters for this volume has been to take an inclusive stance as far as the commitment to different frameworks and research methodologies is concerned. All the contributors are proponents of recent developments in their individual areas of specialization. The editors have taken special care to cater for a readership which should be as broad as possible. This means that each contribution is self-contained and does not presuppose any knowledge of Vietnamese. The volume is recommended to general linguistis, comparative linguists, typologists and to researchers specializing in languages of East and South East Asia.

Author : Pamela A. Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276117

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Numeral Classifier Systems by Pamela A. Downing Pdf

Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts. Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially to universalistic predictions about its semantic structure, this study reports that in actual usage, the semantic role of classifiers is slight — only very rarely do they carry any lexical information unavailable from the context or the noun with which the classifier occurs. It does appear, however, that the system has an important role to play in providing pronoun-like anaphoric elements and in marking pragmatic distinctions such as the individuatedness of referents and the newness of numerical information. For these reasons, the classifier system is deeply involved in a number of subsystems of Japanese grammar, and the demise of the system (sometimes rumored to be impending) would have substantial implications for the structure of the language as a whole.

Author : Morton Ann Gernsbacher,Sharon J. Derry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317708445

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Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society by Morton Ann Gernsbacher,Sharon J. Derry Pdf

This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. As in previous years, the symposium included an interesting mixture of papers on many topics from researchers with diverse backgrounds and different goals, presenting a multifaceted view of cognitive science. This volume contains papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the leading conference that brings cognitive scientists together to discuss issues of theoretical and applied concern. Submitted presentations are represented in these proceedings as "long papers" (those presented as spoken presentations and "full posters" at the conference) and "short papers" (those presented as "abstract posters" by members of the Cognitive Science Society).

Author : Keith E. Nelson,Anne Van Kleeck
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : 0898597609

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Children's Language by Keith E. Nelson,Anne Van Kleeck Pdf

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Linjun Zhang,Zaizhu Han,Yang Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832529522

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Reading acquisition of chinese as a second/foreign language by Linjun Zhang,Zaizhu Han,Yang Zhang Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Visualizing ability and nominal classification: evidence of cultural operation in the agreement rules of Japanese numberal classifiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135632953

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Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages by Karen Emmorey Pdf

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions. It is hoped that by doing so, more researchers will be inspired to investigate the nature of classifier constructions across signed languages and further explore the unique aspects of these forms. The papers in this volume discuss the following issues: *how sign language classifiers differ from spoken languages; *cross-linguistic variation in sign language classifier systems; *the role of gesture; *the nature of morpho-syntactic and phonological constraints on classifier constructions; *the grammaticization process for these forms; and *the acquisition of classifier forms. Divided into four parts, groups of papers focus on a particular set of issues, and commentary papers end each section.