Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems

Name: Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems
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Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems
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Introduction: New perspectives in the study of first and second language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. Language acquisition: The debates
3. Coverage and aims of the volume
3.1 Intersciplinary perspectives on language acquisition
3.2 Multiple facets of linguistic competence in a large developmental age range
3.3 Comparative perspectives: Acquisition across languages
3.4 Comparative perspectives: Acquisition across learners
3.5 Intra- and inter-individual variations in typical development
3.6 Language disorders and atypical development
4. Contents of the volume
4.1 Part I - The emergence and dynamics of language acquisition and language disorders
4.2 Part II - First language acquisition: universals and linguistic diversity
4.3 Part III - Bilingualism and second language acquisition: A multidisciplinary perspective
5. Concluding remarks
References
Part I. Emergence and dynamics of language acquisition and disorders
1. A tale of two paradigms
1. Introduction
2. Eight core issues
3. Mechanisms of emergence
4. Seven timeframes
5. Why the paradigm shift?
5.1 Corpora
5.2 Multimedia
5.3 Neural network models
5.4 Imaging
5.5 Neuroscience
5.6 In vivo learning
6. Conclusion
References
2. Dynamic systems methods in the study of language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. What does dynamic systems theory entail?
3. A somewhat more technical definition of "dynamic system"
4. Categories (versus/and) continuities: A view from dynamic systems theory
5. Dynamic uncertainties .
6. Transitions in early language development: A case study
6.1 The nature of generating mechanisms?
6.2 Data and method
6.3 Evidence of stage transitions?
7. Conclusion
References
3. Early bootstrapping of syntactic acquisition
1. Introduction
2. Phrasal prosody constrains syntactic analysis
3. Function words signal the syntactic category of the following content words
4. Building a 'syntactic skeleton' with phrasal prosody and function words
5. Conclusion
References
4. Language acquisition in developmental disorders
1. Introduction
2. Language as a learning problem
3. The case of language development in Williams syndrome
4. The case of language development in Specific Language Impairment
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Part II. First language acquisition: Universals and diversity
5. Language development in a cross-linguistic context
1. Introduction
2. Morphological development
3. Learning argument structure
4. Crosslinguistic modelling
5. The significance of cross-cultural differences in language learning environments
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
6. A typological approach to first language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. Typology
3. Developmental approach
4. First typological differences in acquisition
5. Language types
6. Conclusion
References
7. Linguistic relativity in first language acquisition
1. Introduction: Language and cognition
1.1 Motion across languages: Lexicalization and grammaticalization
1.2 Cognitive implications
2. The acquisition of spatial language
2.1 Voluntary motion
2.2 Caused motion
2.3 The emergence of spatial language
3. Discussion
4. Concluding remarks
References
8. On the importance of goals in child language
1. Introduction
2. Preference for goals in earliest usage
3. Goal preference in learning artificial spatial markers
4. Spatial language in a spatially challenged population: Williams syndrome
5. Conclusion
References
9. Promoting patients in narrative discourse
1. Introduction
2. Event construal: Topics, agency and event view
3. Topics in discourse development
4. Word order and obligatory subjects
5. Constructions for topicalizing patients
6. Methodology
6.1 The Frog Story
6.2 Coding
7. Results
7.1 Dislocations
7.2 Passives
7.3 Topicalisation constructions
7.4 Summary of the results
8. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
10. On-line grammaticality judgments
1. Introduction
2. Some properties of European Portuguese and French: Agreement and word-order
3. Sentence structures and processing hypotheses
4. Method
5. Results
5.1 Undetected violations
5.2 Detection times
6. Discussion and conclusion
References
11. The expression of finiteness by L1 and L2 learners of Dutch, French, and German
1. Introduction
2. The case of auch
3. Other candidates for the left bracket in L1
3.1 Methodology
3.2 L1 utterances: German and Dutch
3.3 L1 utterances: French
4. Summary and hypothesis
5. Towards a definition of semantic finiteness
6. Adult learners
7. Discussion and conclusion
References
Part III. Bilingualism and second language acquisition
12. Age of onset in successive acquisition of bilingualism
1. Introduction: The language making capacity
2. Simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism
2.1 Simultaneous acquisition of two or more languages
2.2 Successive acquisition of bilingualism: The Fundamental Difference Hypothesis
3. Sensitive periods in language development
4. Child L2 acquisition: Linguistic evidence
5. Child L2 acquisition: Neuropsychological evidence
6. Conclusions and open questions
Acknowledgments
References
13. The development of person-number verbal morphology in different types of learners
1. Introduction
1.1 Verbal morphology in different learner groups
1.2 Verbal agreement morphology in French and Swedish
1.3 Verbal agreement morphology versus clitic pronouns
2. Verbal agreement morphology in adult L2 learners
2.1 Spoken French L2
2.2 Written French L2
3. The verbal agreement morphology of bilingual 2L1 children
3.1 Data
4. Conclusion and discussion
Acknowledgements
References
14. Re-thinking the bilingual interactive-activation model from a developmental perspective (BIA-d)
1. Introduction
2. The Bilingual Interactive-Activation (BIA) model
3. Evidence for cross-language interference
4. Language switching and the BIA-model
5. Second language vocabulary acquisition
6. Developmental Bilingual Interactive-Activation (BIA-d)
7. Current research perspectives
References
15. Foreign language vocabulary learning
1. Introduction
2. Word-type effects on vocabulary acquisition and retention
3. Explaining the data
3.1 Concreteness and word frequency
3.2 FL typicality
3.3 Cognate status
3.4 Differential forgetting
4. Conclusion
References
16. Cerebral imaging and individual differences in language learning
1. Introduction
2. Conclusion
References
17. The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition and bilingualism
1. Introduction
2. Factors that matter
2.1 Psycho(bio)logical factors influencing bilingual brain organisation
2.2 Linguistic factors influencing bilingual brain organization
2.3 Socio-cultural factors influencing bilingual brain organization
2.4 Biological factors influencing bilingual brain organization
3. Proficiency level - Concluding remarks
References
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