The Learnability of Complex Constructions
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 10. August 2020
V, 240 pages
978-3-11-069511-3 (ISBN)
Description
How language users from different linguistic backgrounds cope with forms of complexity is still a territory with many unanswered questions. The current book is concerned with morphologically and syntactically complex items, that is, derivatives, inflected forms, compounds, phrases and forms related by agreement and examines how these constructions are acquired and learned in a great range of different languages, such as Turkish, Welsh, Basque and Catalan. Relying on a variety of methodologies targeting production or comprehension, among others, lexical decision and priming experiments, an EEG study, a corpus analysis and a reading test, the authors consider data from native speakers mastering one or more languages and second-language users. Overall, the volume reflects upon and contributes to our understanding of how the pecularities of language and its users affect the learnability of complex forms.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
17 b/w and 1 col. ill., 55 b/w tbl.
File size
7,91 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-069511-3 (9783110695113)
Schweitzer Classification
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08/2020
1st Edition
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€149.95
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Person
Marcel Schlechtweg
, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Lexical co-activation with prefixed cognates and non-cognates: Evidence from cross-script masked priming
- Differences in acoustic detail: The realization of syncretic nouns in German
- Does the processing of first language compounds change in late bilinguals?
- Planning complex structures in a second language: Compounds and phrases in non-native speech production
- The learnability of English intensifying constructions in French-speaking learners: Receptive versus productive competence
- Is it hard to learn multiple word orders?
- The learnability of gender agreement in Spanish bilinguals
- Agreement mismatches in the Spanish preterite of Catalan-dominant bilinguals in Majorca: A receding interlanguage phenomenon
- Index
