Language Acquisition

2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-50030-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

Reihe: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics

This book provides a snapshot of the field of language acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the multiplicity of approaches that characterize the field and provides a review of current topics and debates, as well as addressing some of the connections between sub-fields and possible future directions for research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster-Cohen, Susan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: EXPLAINING LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Word Learning and the Origins of Phonological System; M.Vihman Processing Strategies in First Language Acquisition; A.M.Peters The Inevitability of Child Directed Speech; M.Saxton Universal Grammar Approaches to Language Acquisition; M.T.Guasti Second Language Acquisition; S.Gass PART II: WINDOWS ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Language and the Many Faces of Emotion; J.Reilly Complements Enable Representation of the Contents of False Beliefs: The Evolution of a Theory of Theory of Mind; J. & P.De Villiers Going Beyond Semantics: The Development of Pragmatic Enrichment; N.Pouscoulous & I.Noveck The Acquisition of Phrasal Vocabulary; K.Kuiper, G.Columbus & N.Schmitt PART III: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, CULTURE AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY Language Development in Simultaneous Bilingual Children; N.Müller Universals and Cross-Linguistic Variability in Children's Discourse; M.Hickmann Trends in Research on Narrative Development; R.Berman Family Literacy Activities: What Is, What Ought To Be and The Role of Parents' Ideas; S.McNaughton, M.Amituanai-Toloa & E.Wolfgramm-Foliaki Index

Über Autor(innen)

MEAOLA AMITUANAI-TOLOA is Associate Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre, and Lecturer and Associate Dean Pasifika at The University of Auckland, New Zealand
RUTH BERMAN is Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel
GEORGIE COLUMBUS is a phraseologist working in corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics
SUSAN GASS is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, USA
MARIA TERESA GUASTI is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
MAYA HICKMANN
KOENRAAD KUIPER is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
STUART MCNAUGHTON
NATASCHA MÜLLER is Professor of Romance linguistics (French, Italian, Spanish) at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
IRA A. NOVECK is a research scientist at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives in Lyon, France
ANN PETERS is Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
NAUSICAA POUSCOULOUS
JUDY REILLY
MATTHEW SAXTON is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, the Institute of Education, University of London, UK
NORBERT SCHMITT is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK
MARILYN VIHMAN is Professor of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, UK
JILL DE VILLIERS
PETER DE VILLIERS
EMA WOLFGRAMM-FOLIAKI