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The aim of the first edition of Language Acquisition was to provide as comprehensive a description and explanation as possible of the changes in the child's language as he or she grows older. In this second edition Paul Fletcher and Michael Garman have the same fundamental aim. Six years later the field has not changed dramatically, but there have been fruitful theoretical developments - the learnability hypothesis, in particular, has been influentially expounded - and empirical work seeking evidence of specific language capacities in children has made notable advances. Equally significant are shifts in emphasis: the growing interest in cross-linguistic studies, for example, or accounts of language development of reading and writing. All these changes are reflected in the second edition. About half the chapters are entirely new, having been specially commissioned for this edition. The remainder of the book consists of substantially revised versions of chapters from the first edition. Like its predecessor, this collection is the work of distinguished specialists from many countries and will provide an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike who have an interest in the field of child language acquisition.
in infancy and childhood --- Language Development. --- Development, Language --- Developments, Language --- Language Developments --- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, in infancy and childhood --- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, in infancy and childhood. --- Language development, in infancy and childhood. --- Language acquisition --- Language Development --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Acquisition --- Language acquisition. --- Langage --- Language Acquisition --- Acquisition, Language --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language Development - in infancy and childhood
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Bilingualism Across the Lifespan examines the dynamics of bilingual language processing over time from the perspectives of neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This multidisciplinary approach is fundamental to an understanding of how the bilingual's two (or more) language systems interact with each other and with other higher cognitive systems, neurological substrates, and social systems - a central theme of this volume. Contributors examine the nature of bilingualism during various phases of the lifecycle - childhood, adulthood, and old age - and in various health/pathology conditions. Topics range from code separation in the young bilingual child, across various types of language pathologies in adult bilinguals, to language choice problems in dementia. The volume thus offers a broad overview of current theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of bilingualism. It will interest and stimulate researchers and graduate students in the fields of linguistics, neuropsychology, and developmental psychology, as well as in foreign language teaching, speech pathology, educational psychology, and special education.
Bilingualism --- Language acquisition --- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT --- Language Development. --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Development, Language --- Developments, Language --- Language Developments --- Acquisition --- Bilingualism. --- Language Development --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Bilinguisme --- Langage --- Language Acquisition --- Acquisition, Language --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language acquisition.
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Psycholinguistics --- Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- Language development. --- Multilingualism. --- Brain --- Brain Mapping. --- Neurosciences --- physiology. --- methods. --- Physiology. --- Methods.
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There have been many studies of children learning to talk, but perhaps none as comprehensive - in terms of the number of children involved, the period of continuous observation and the scope of the analysis - as the Bristol Study of Language Development. This is the first full-length volume to be written by members of the research team and it is a fundamental study of language development from infancy to primary school. It synthesises the research to date and discusses some key socio- and psycholinguistic themes with reference to transcribed excerpts from spontaneous conversations recorded by the team and to experimental data. The authors' central argument is that conversation provides the natural context of language development and that the child learns through exploring his world of interaction with other people. The quality of learning is seen to depend particularly on the strategies that adults employ to develop and extend children's contributions to interaction. This has important practical implications for the transition from home to school, and the second part of the book examines the differences and similarities between the talk that goes on in these two environments. The final chapter considers the development of literacy. The model of language development presented here will make stimulating and challenging reading for a wide range of sociologists, psychologists and educationalists as well as being of particular interest to linguists.
Language acquisition --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Acquisition --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language acquisition.
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This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreover, it is only through an understanding of these principles that foreign language teaching can become maximally effective. In the first part of his book, Wolfgang Klein provides a critical assessment of the state of the art at the time. The second part, 'from the learner's point of view', is devoted to four central problems which anyone learning a second language (either through everyday communication or in the classroom) is faced with, and whose solution constitutes the acquisition process. This accessible introduction provides students of linguistics and applied linguistics and anyone concerned with foreign language teaching with a real understanding of the fundamental issues in the field.
Acquisition du langage --- Acquisition of language --- Langage [Acquisition du ] --- Language acquisition --- Language development in children --- Taalverwerving --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Acquisition --- Psycholinguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language acquisition. --- Langage --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics
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Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition du langage --- Acquisition of language --- Langage [Acquisition du ] --- Language acquisition --- Language development in children --- Lexique --- Stock of words --- Taalverwerving --- Vocabulaire --- Vocabulary --- Woordenschat --- Word books --- Words [Stock of ] --- Langage --- Acquisition --- --Acquisition --- --Vocabulaire --- --Language acquisition --- English language --- Words, Stock of --- Diction --- Lexicology --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children
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The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially mastered by the age of three, and with incredible ease and speed, despite the complexity of the task. This accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, exploring language development from birth. Setting out the key theoretical debates, it considers questions such as what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language; how far acquisition is biologically programmed and how far it is influenced by our environment; what makes second language learning (in adulthood) different from first language acquisition; and whether the specific stages in language development are universal across languages. Clear and comprehensive, it is set to become a key text for all courses in child language acquisition, within linguistics, developmental psychology and cognitive science.
Language acquisition --- Research --- Methodology --- 800.7 --- 800.7 Taalonderwijs. Taalverwerving --- Taalonderwijs. Taalverwerving --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Research&delete& --- Acquisition --- Methodology. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language acquisition - Research - Methodology --- Language acquisition - Textbooks. --- Language acquisition - Textbooks
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Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume places the analysis of language and gender in the context of a biocultural framework, examining both cultural and biological sources of gender differences in language, as well as the interaction between them. The first two parts of the volume on cultural variation in gender-differentiated language use, comparing Western English-speaking societies with societies elsewhere in the world. The essays are distinguished by an emphasis on the syntax, rather than style or strategy, of gender-differentiated forms of discourse but also often carry out the same forms differently through different choices of language form. These gender differences are shown to be socially organized, although the essays in Part I also raise the possibility that some cross-cultural similarities in the ways males and females differentially use language may be related to sex-based differences in physical and emotional makeup. Part III examines the relationship between language and the brain and shows that although there are differences between the ways males and females process language in the brain, these do not yield any differences in linguistic competence or language use. Taken as a whole, the essays reveal a great diversity in the cultural construction of gender through language and explicity show that while there is some evidence of the influence of biologically based sex differences on the language of women and men, the influence of culture is far greater, and gender differences in language use are better accounted for in terms of culture than in terms of biology. The collection will appeal widely to anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, and other concerned with the understanding of gender roles.
Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociolinguistics --- Children --- Language and languages --- #SBIB:309H518 --- 800:316 --- 800:316 Sociolinguistiek --- Sociolinguistiek --- Language and sex --- Sexism in language --- Biolinguistics --- Neurophysiology --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language --- Physiological aspects --- Sex differences --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Vocabulary --- Language. --- Physiological aspects. --- Sex differences. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology
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Children's aquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between the two, this volume provides a new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture. The volume focuses on the ways in which children are both socialized through language and socialized to use language in culturally specific ways. The contributors examine the verbal interactions of small children with their caregivers and peers in several different societies around the world, showing that these interactions are socially and culturally organized, and that it is by participating in them that children come to understand sociocultural orientations. They emphasize the salient language behaviours of children and others, and show how these are embedded in broader patterns of social behaviour and cultural knowledge. They reveal that various features of discourse - phonological, morpho-syntactic, lexical, pragmatic, and conversational - carry sociocultural information, and that language in use is a major resource for conveying and displaying socio-cultural knowledge. As children acquire language, so they are also acquiring a world view. This innovative approach to the study of language acquisition and socialization will appeal widely to anthropologists, linguists, psychologists, specialists in communication studies, and educationists.
316.774:003 --- #SBIB:309H518 --- 316.774:003 Sociologie van het schrift --- Sociologie van het schrift --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Language acquisition --- Socialization --- Child socialization --- Children --- Enculturation --- Social education --- Education --- Sociology --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition --- Sociolinguistics --- Language acquisition. --- Socialization. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics
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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.
Creolan languages --- Creole dialects. --- Langues créoles --- Psycholinguistics --- Creole dialects --- Language acquisition --- Children --- Language --- Language acquisition. --- Langage --- Enfants --- Language. --- Acquisition --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language and languages --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Vocabulary --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Children - Language
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