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Grammaticalization and first language acquisition : crosslinguistic perspectives /
This paper examines the development of motion expressions in two Korean children. The database consists of bi-weekly to monthly recordings of spontaneous mother-child interaction in their home between ages 1:11 and 4;2. All expressions of motion, both spontaneous and caused, were analyzed following...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; The study of early comprehension in language development; 1. Introduction; 2. Which methods for which purposes; 2.1 Classic off-line methods of comprehension; 2.1.1 The acting-out technique; 2.1.2 The picture-pointing technique; 2.1.3 Parental reports as instruments in the study of vocabulary growth: The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI); 2.2 The Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm: an off-line/on-line paradigm; 2.3 On-line methods; 2.3.1 Eye tracking methods.
- 2.3.2 Event-related brain potentials3. Some new directions in early language comprehension; 3.1 Early syntactic comprehension and task dependence; 3.2 New insights on comprehension/production asymmetries in early language acquisition; 3.3 Variability in processing speed during early comprehension and its implications; 4. Conclusion; References; Résumé; The acquisition of nominal determiners in French and German; 1. Introduction; 2. Determiner systems in French and Austrian German; 3. The acquisition of determiners and the Germanic vs. Romance contrast; 4. Objectives and hypotheses; 5. Method.
- 5.1 Participants and data collection5.2 Coding; 6. Results; 6.1 The development of the determiner use constraint; 6.2 The establishment of determiner systems: morphosyntactic dimensions; 6.2.1 Determiner classes and their distribution; 6.2.2 Definite and indefinite articles: gender and number, salience; 6.2.3 Incorrect determiners; 7. Discussion; 7.1 Cross-linguistic variation in the acquisition of determiners; 7.2 The prominence hypotheses: (In)definiteness, gender, number; 8. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Abstract.
- Exploring patterns of adaptation in child-directed speech during the process of early grammaticalization in child language1. Introduction; 1.1 Adaptation between child language and child-directed speech; 1.2 Research questions; 1.3 Methodology: Analyzing individual patterns of development; 2. Methods; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Data collection; 2.3 Coding system; 3. Results; 3.1 Inter-individual differences: exploratory curve analysis; 3.1.1 Utterance length; 3.1.2 Noun proportion in vocabulary; 3.1.3 Determiner use and omission; 3.2 Analyzing local variability.
- 3.3 Analyzing global patterns of variability4. Discussion; 4.1 Summary of the results; 4.2 Individual differences in CDS; 4.3 Methodological considerations; Acknowledgments; References; Résumé; Sonority, gender and the impact of suffix predictability on the acquisition of German noun plurals; 1. Introduction; 1.1 German noun plurals in acquisition; 1.2 Sonority, gender and suffix predictability; 1.3 Predictions; 2. Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Materials; 2.3 Procedure; 2.4 Transcription and coding; 3. Results; 3.1 General analysis of children's responses.