Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition

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Crosslinguistic perspectives

Dominique Bassano Maya Hickmann(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 29. Mai 2013

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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 potentials
3. 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 collection
5.2 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 language
1. 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 variability
4. 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
3.2 Analysis of children's correct suffix production
3.3 Analysis of children's erroneous suffix production
4. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Résumé
Appendix
The impact of typological factors in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. Verbalisations of spatial information
3. Motion events in language acquisition
3.1 General developmental factors
3.2 Typological factors
3.3 The relevance of simultaneous bilingualism
3.4 Predictions
4. Methodology
4.1 Participants
4.2 Material
4.3 Procedure
4.3 Coding
4.3.1 Semantic Density
4.3.2 Information Locus
5. Results
5.1 Semantic Density
5.1.1 Semantic Density: Monolingual children
5.1.2 Semantic Density: Bilingual children
5.2 Information Locus
5.2.1 Information Locus: Monolingual children
5.2.2 Information Locus: Bilingual children
6. Discussion and conclusions
References
Résumé
Appendix: Overview of target items
Developmental perspectives on the expression of motion in speech and gesture
1. Introduction
1.1 Speaking about motion across languages
1.2 Implications for language and cognitive development
1.3 Relating gestures and speech in language acquisition
2. Method
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.3 Procedure
2.4 Coding
2.4.1 Speech
2.4.2 Gestures
2.4.3 Statistical analyses
3. Results
3.1 Speech in the large sample
3.2 Speech in the sub-sample
3.3 Gestures in the sub-sample
3.4 Speech-gesture co-expressivity
3.4.1 Co-expressivity at the clause level
3.4.2 Co-expressivity in exactly temporally aligned speech
4. Discussion
4.1 Speech and gesture during language acquisition
4.2 Language and cognition across child languages: future directions
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Résumé
Appendix: Stimuli used in the experiment
Language-specificity of motion event expressions in young Korean children
1. Introduction
1.1 Adult grammar for expressing Motion Events
1.2 Korean grammar for expressing Motion event
1.2.1 Serial Verb Constructions
1.2.2 Postpositional markers
1.2.3 Manner adverbs
1.3 Learning to express motion events: Previous findings and predictions
2. Database and methodology
2.1 Database
2.2 Coding
2.3 Analysis
3. Results
3.1 Distribution of motion information: 'Verb alone' vs. 'verb and other devices'
3.2 Semantic content of motion expressed in verb
3.3 Semantic content of motion expressed in other devices
3.3.1 Children's uses of postpositional markers
3.3.2 Adverbs expressing Manner of Motion
3.3.3 Proportions of location, path, and manner expressed in other devices
3.4 Utterance density
4. Summary and discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Résumé
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