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Production-comprehension asymmetries in child language
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ISBN: 1283430371 9786613430373 3110259176 9783110259179 9783110238723 3110238721 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton,

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The workshop Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language held in Osnabrück in 2009 is the starting point for this book. The workshopdeveloped fromthe observation that children's production skills appear to precede their comprehension skills in a number of phenomena, e.g. pronouns or negation. The volume provides cross-linguistic evidence for such asymmetric development and investigates grammatical and methodical explanations of the observed asymmetries.


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Early child Cantonese : facts and implications
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ISBN: 1283399628 9786613399625 3110240092 9783110240092 9781283399623 3110240041 9783110240047 9783110240047 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton,

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This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the largest corpus of early childhood Cantonese. To supplement and illuminate published trends in the literature, carefully gathered reliable and valid empirical data are critically scrutinized. The evidence is used to clarify and examine theoretical as


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Experience, variation and generalization : learning a first language
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ISBN: 9789027234773 9027234779 9789027285041 9027285047 1283174790 9786613174796 9781283174794 6613174793 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins,

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Theories of language acquisition must address the role of constraints in children's learning. Are they language-specific or domain-general? Do they come from the learner or are do they result from external factors like the nature of the data? In this chapter we describe how Bayesian modeling may be used to explore this issue. The Bayesian framework has been useful for determining what an ideal learner might be able to learn given a certain set of specific constraints and a certain type of input. It also provides a natural way to compare the effect of different constraints, and to grow towards increasingly cognitively natural models by altering those constraints. Keywords: Learning constraints; Bayesian modeling.


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Bilingualism in the USA : the case of the Chicano-Latino community
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ISBN: 1283234432 9786613234438 9027285098 9789027285096 9789027241832 902724183X 9789027241849 9027241848 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino community of Southern California, where Spanish-English bilingualism has over a century and a half of history, and presents a detailed case study, thereby situating the community in a much broader social context. Spanish is the second most-widely spoken language in the U.S. after English, yet, for the mo


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Where do phonological features come from ? : cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories
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ISBN: 9789027208231 9789027286949 9027286949 1283174901 9781283174909 9027208239 9786613174901 6613174904 Year: 2011 Volume: 6 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins,

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Stevens (2002) postulates that speakers represent words in terms of distinctive features, with different acoustic cues signaling the feature contrasts in different contexts. Imbrie (2002) suggests that children use cues differently from adults in word-onset consonants. This paper explores these differences for word-final stops, using detailed acoustic analyses of cues to the voicing contrast in 2 children (2;5 and 3;2). Voiced coda stops were associated with a long voice bar during closure and an epenthetic vowel after release; voiceless coda stops with noisy and/or glottalized voice quality toward the vowel end, suggesting that incomplete control of gestural coordination, immature planning ability, or non-adult-like decisions about enhancing feature cues, may persist even after the child is producing recognizable stops.


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Didaktik sprachlichen Handelns : Überlegungen zum Sprachunterricht in der Sekundarstufe I
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ISSN: 03446778 ISBN: 3484311096 3111376346 9783484311091 Year: 2011 Volume: 109 Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, Max Niemeyer Verlag,


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Comparative perspectives on language acquisition : a tribute to Clive Perdue
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ISBN: 1847696058 1280120894 9786613524751 184769604X 9781847696045 9781280120893 9781847696052 9781847696038 1847696031 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters,

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This volume aims to provide a broad view of second language acquisition within a comparative perspective that addresses results concerning adult and child learners across a variety of source and target languages. It brings together contributions at the forefront of language acquisition research that consider a wide range of open questions: What are the precise mechanisms underlying acquisition? How can we characterize learners’ initial state and predict their degree of final achievement? What role do specific (typological) properties of source and target languages play? How does fossilization occur? How does the relative complexity of cognitive systems in adult and child learners affect acquisition? Does language learning influence cognitive organization? Can language learning shed light on our general understanding of human language and language processing?

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