Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition
Crosslinguistic perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2013
V, 187 pages
978-90-272-7189-1 (ISBN)
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Grammaticalization and lexicalization are at the heart of first language acquisition. Understanding how these processes begin and evolve is a major challenge for current theories and has implications for applications in teaching or clinical contexts. This volume examines the relative weight of cognitive and linguistic determinants of acquisition with particular attention to two questions. The first one concerns the origins of grammar and the processes underlying its development. Is grammatical knowledge innate or constructed by the child? Is it modular or does it interact with other capacities? How can we account for continuity and discontinuity in development? What is the role of input? Second, considerable variation is observed in lexical and grammatical development across child languages. Is the process of acquisition similar in all children or do language-specific factors impact its rhythm and course? Do typological factors determine children's reliance on lexical or grammatical means of expression in some domains? Originally published in Language, Interaction and Acquisition - Langage, Interaction et Acquisition 2:1 (2011).
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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
- Index
