Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems
Editors
How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research during the last two decades has begun to solve some pieces of the puzzle. This book proposes an interdisciplinary collection of writings from some of the best specialists across several fields in cognitive science, offering a wide sample of recent advances in the study of first language acquisition, bilingualism, second language acquisition, and disorders of oral language. It is addressed to all researchers and students interested in language acquisition, as well as to teachers, clinicians and parents, who will find therein many new findings and varied methodological approaches, as well as challenging questions that are still debated and in need of further research.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 52] 2010. vii, 330 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 December 2010
Published online on 10 December 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction. New perspectives in the study of first and second language acquisition: Linguistic and cognitive constraintsMichèle Kail and Maya Hickmann | pp. 1–14
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Part I. Emergence and dynamics of language acquisition and disorders
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Chapter 1. A tale of two paradigmsBrian MacWhinney | pp. 17–32
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Chapter 2. Dynamic systems methods in the study of language acquisition: Modeling and the search for trends, transitions and fluctuationsPaul van Geert | pp. 33–52
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Chapter 3. Early bootstrapping of syntactic acquisitionAnne Christophe, Séverine Millotte, Perrine Brusini and Elodie Cauvet | pp. 53–66
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Chapter 4. Language acquisition in developmental disordersMichael S.C. Thomas | pp. 67–87
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Part II. First language acquisition: Universals and diversity
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Chapter 5. Language development in a cross-linguistic contextElena Lieven | pp. 91–108
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Chapter 6. A typological approach to first language acquisitionWolfgang U. Dressler | pp. 109–123
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Chapter 7. Linguistic relativity in first language acquisition: Spatial language and cognitionMaya Hickmann | pp. 125–146
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Chapter 8. On the importance of goals in child language: Acquisition and impairment data from HungarianCsaba Pléh | pp. 147–160
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Chapter 9. Promoting patients in narrative discourse: A developmental perspectiveHarriet Jisa, Florence Chenu, Gabriella Fekete and Hayat Omar | pp. 161–177
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Chapter 10. On-line grammaticality judgments: A comparative study of French and PortugueseMichèle Kail, Armanda Costa and Isabel Hub Faria | pp. 179–203
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Chapter 11. The expression of finiteness by L1 and L2 learners of Dutch, French, and GermanClive Perdue | pp. 205–221
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Part III. Bilingualism and second language acquisition: A multidisciplinary perspective
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Chapter 12. Age of onset in successive acquisition of bilingualism: Effects on grammatical developmentJürgen M. Meisel | pp. 225–247
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Chapter 13. The development of person-number verbal morphology in different types of learnersSuzanne Schlyter | pp. 249–265
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Chapter 14. Re-thinking the bilingual interactive-activation model from a developmental perspective (BIA-d)Jonathan Grainger, Katherine Midgley and Phillip J. Holcomb | pp. 267–283
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Chapter 15. Foreign language vocabulary learning: Word-type effects during the labeling stageAnnette M.B. de Groot and Rosanne C.L. van den Brink | pp. 285–297
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Chapter 16. Cerebral imaging and individual differences in language learningChristophe Pallier | pp. 299–305
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Chapter 17. The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition and bilingualism: Factors that matter in L2 acquisition – A neuro-cognitive perspectiveSusanne Reiterer | pp. 307–321
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Index of languages | p. 323
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Index of subjects | pp. 325–330
“The editors of this volume should be commended for assembling such an impressive selection of contributions that are representative for breadth and diversity of contemporary language acquisition research. Despite this breadth and diversity, a coherent picture emerges of a rapidly expanding field of research that is gaining a deep and nuanced understanding of how neurophysiological, cognitive, and linguistic systems interact during language acquisition in various domains and contexts.”
Vera Kempe, University of Abertay, Dundee, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 34(3): 523-524, 2012
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDC: Language acquisition
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General