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Author | : Orlando L. Taylor |
Publisher | : Singular |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Using the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of North America as a context, this well-written text provides excellent examples of how unique cultural and linguistic attributes influence the language acquisition process in children. The editors discuss the fact that although acquisition of language is universal among the world's children, the precise developmental sequence is influenced by the socio-cultural context in which language is acquired. Emphasis is placed on the importance of studying different cultural groups and language to arrive at a better understanding of language development.
Author | : Janne Bondi Johannessen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027268193 |
Download Germanic Heritage Languages in North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.
Author | : Alyona Belikova |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language acquisition |
ISBN | : 9781574734195 |
Download Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This proceedings contains 46 papers and posters presented at the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), which was held August 17-19, 2006, in Montreal. The authors examine first and second language acquisition issues in a large number of languages. The papers focus on the acquisition of syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology.
Author | : Carmen Dagostino |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 998 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3110712741 |
Download The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
Author | : Tania Ionin |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027262888 |
Download Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language Acquisition), each of which investigates the nature of language acquisition from the generative perspective. A unique feature of the GALANA-7 conference, and of this volume, is the bringing together of research on generative language acquisition and research on the role that cross-dialectal input variation plays in acquisition. This volume should be of interest to scholars and students of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and input variation.
Author | : Stephen O. Murray |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027245568 |
Download Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and "revolutionary" challenges to traditions within North American linguistics, especially within 20th-century anthropological linguistics. After showing substantial differences between Bloomfield's and neo-Bloomfieldian theorizing, Murray shows that early transformational-generative work on syntax grew out of neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism, and was promoted by neo-Bloomfieldian gatekeepers, in particular longtime Language editor Bernard Bloch. The central case studies of the book contrast the (increasingly) "revolutionary rhetoric" of transformational-generative grammarians with rhetorics of continuity emitted by two linguistic anthropology groupings that began simultaneously with TGG in the late-1950s, the ethnography of communication and ethnoscience.
Author | : Carmen Dagostino |
Publisher | : De Gruyter Mouton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110597981 |
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Author | : Bernhard Brehmer |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027261350 |
Download Lost in Transmission Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the societally dominant language in most other domains. What exactly they know about their heritage language continues to fascinate the research community as well as teachers and other practitioners working with this group. The different contributions cover a large variety of studies into heritage languages spoken in Europe and North America (including Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). The volume makes a key contribution to the description and explanation of variability in the outcomes of heritage language acquisition, taking into account a wide range of factors which impact on language acquisition. As comparisons are frequently made with monolinguals and foreign language learners, the volume is also highly relevant for researchers working in monolingual language acquisition and foreign language learning and teaching.
Author | : Kimberly Geeslin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2022-03-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000549771 |
Download The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors’ role in second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups. Top scholars from around the world synthesize current and past work, contextualize the central issues, and set the future research agenda on second language variation, including languages studied or taught less commonly. This will be an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of SLA, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in the social aspects of language learning in research practice and instruction.
Author | : Clifton Pye |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-01-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 022648131X |
Download The Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues. These qualities, Clifton Pye shows, afford a particular opportunity for linguistic insight. Both an overview of lessons Pye has gleaned from more than thirty years of studying how children learn Mayan languages as well as a strong case for a novel method of researching crosslinguistic language acquisition more broadly, this book demonstrates the value of a close, granular analysis of a small language lineage for untangling the complexities of first language acquisition. Pye here applies the comparative method to three Mayan languages—K’iche’, Mam, and Ch’ol—showing how differences in the use of verbs are connected to differences in the subject markers and pronouns used by children and adults. His holistic approach allows him to observe how small differences between the languages lead to significant differences in the structure of the children’s lexicon and grammar, and to learn why that is so. More than this, he expects that such careful scrutiny of related languages’ variable solutions to specific problems will yield new insights into how children acquire complex grammars. Studying such an array of related languages, he argues, is a necessary condition for understanding how any particular language is used; studying languages in isolation, comparing them only to one’s native tongue, is merely collecting linguistic curiosities.