[PDF] Progression And Regression In Language eBook

Author : Kenneth Hyltenstam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521438742

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First published in 1994, this crosslinguistic collection looks at changes and developments in language involving gain or loss in structural complexity or utility. The dynamics of these processes of progression and regression are examined at the societal and the individual level, and the two are compared. In the former, the focus is on the social and cultural forces that influence groups of speakers to create new languages or abandon old ones. In the latter, the acquisition and attrition of both first and second languages are considered. Questions raised include: Can parallel structural patterning be observed in whole languages and in the individual's version of a language? Is there parallelism between progression and regression? Can changes occurring in progression and regression be interpreted in a typological framework? These are addressed from sociological, neuropsychological, and linguistic perspectives.

Author : Theo Harden
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783039102891

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"Based on the selected proceedings from an international conference Concept of progression in foreign language teaching and learning, held in Dublin in February 2004"--Cover.

Author : Kendall A. King
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781853594946

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This work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes of positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of formal and informal educational efforts to revitalize threatened languages.

Author : Monika S. Schmid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192512196

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This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects of language attrition can be felt in all aspects of language knowledge, processing, and production, and can offer unique insights into the mind of bilingual language users. In this book, international experts in the field explore a comprehensive range of topics in language attrition, examining its theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages. The chapters summarize current research and draw on insights from related fields such as child language development, language contact, language change, pathological developments, and second language acquisition.

Author : Tej K. Bhatia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004653023

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What allows children to acquire language so effortlessly, with such speed, and with such amazing accuracy? Capitalizing on the most recent developments in linguistics and cognitive psychology, this volume sheds new light on the what, why, and how of the child's ability to acquire one or more languages. The "Handbook" is one of a kind in a number of respects. It includes state-of-the-art treatments of acquisition from a variety of theoretical viewpoints ranging from functionalist approaches and the implications of the creolization of languages for the study of acquisition to the relevance of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It contains overviews of the acquisition of all components of linguistic structure, treats the acquisition of the sign languages of the deaf, and discusses the specific problems of bilingual acquisition. This handbook addresses the following questions: 'Is the capacity for language acquisition constant throughout the career of the language learner (that is, is it 'continuous') or does that capacity change in significant ways as the learner matures?' ; 'Is the language capacity a separate module of the mind or does it follow from general, 'all-purpose' cognitive capacities?'; 'What is innate in language acquisition and what is acquired on the basis of experience?'; 'What research/methodological issues arise in the study of child language acquisition?'; 'How might input from the language (or languages) of the environment, including visual/gestural input in the case of the sign languages of the deaf, affect the process and result of acquisition?'; and, 'How are the facts of non-normal acquisition to be explained?'

Author : Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019926662X

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Author : Ludo Th Verhoeven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027241344

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In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between form and function will be studied across a broad range of functional categories, such as temporality, perspective, connectivity, and narrative coherence. Moreover, a variety of language contact situations is considered with broad variation in the typological distances between the languages in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison. The analysis of learner data in various cross-linguistic settings may thus offer new information on the role of the structural properties of unrelated languages on the process of narrative acquisition. In the present volume, an attempt is also made to find out how transfer from one language to the other is facilitated. Finally, the effects of input on narrative construction in children's first and second language are examined in several studies.

Author : Petar Kehayov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110524082

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Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In this study the author changes the perspective and shows that the relative susceptibility of linguistic elements to loss, change and innovation in language death circumstances can be dependent on meaning and thus organized along semantic notions rather than along structure.

Author : C. Fought
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2002-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230510019

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Chicano English in Context is the first modern, comprehensive study of Chicano English, a variety spoken by millions of Latinos in the U.S. It is also one of the first studies of ongoing sound change within an ethnic minority community. It briefly describes the phonology, syntax and semantics of this variety, and explores its crucial role in the construction of ethnic identity among young Latinos and Latinas. It also corrects misconceptions in how the general public views Chicano English.