Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives
Edited by Heike Behrens
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 6] 2008. xxx, 234 pp.
Heike Behrens
List of John Benjamins publications for which Heike Behrens plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
2020 From grammatical categories to processes of categorization: The acquisition of morphosyntax from a usage-based perspective Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 91–112 | Chapter
Current version of usage-based grammars propose that grammatical categories are language-specific local generalizations rather than universal building blocks of linguistic structure. This changes the perspective on what learning syntax or morphology is about. Instead of activating innate… read more
2011 Cues to form and function in the acquisition of German number and case inflection Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 35–52 | Article
German children seem to acquire plural marking with apparent ease, although plural is encoded by several allomorphs with different degrees of predictability. Data from a dense database of a boy between age 2;0 and 2;5 show that all plural allomorphs are abstracted early and are used for… read more
2011 Dynamic Systems Theory and a usage-based approach to Second Language Development A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development: Methods and techniques, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie (eds.), pp. 25–38 | Article
2008 Corpora in language acquisition research: History, methods, perspectives Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. xi–xxx | Miscellaneous