Approaches to bootstrapping [electronic resource] : phonological,lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1 / edited by Jurgen Weissenborn, Barbara Hohle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weissenborn, Jürgen.

Höhle, Barbara.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 23-24.

Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 23-24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Language awareness in children.

Physical Description:

xvii, 298 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition are: cues and mechanisms for isolating words in the input; special features of motherese and their role for early word learning; the determination of first word meanings; memory and related processing capacities in early word learning and understanding; and lexical representation and lexical access in early language production. The papers on syntactic development deal with the acquisition of grammatical prosodic features for learning language specific syntactic regularities.Volume 2 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on the interaction between the development of prosodic and morphosyntactic knowledge as evidenced in the early speech of Dutch, English, German, Portugese, Spanish, Danish, Islandic, and Swedish children sheding new light on the relation between universal and language specific aspects of language acquisition. Another section of this volume deals with new approaches to language acquisition using ERP- techniques. The papers discuss in detail the relation between the development of language skills and changes in neurophysiological aspects of the brain. The potentials of these techniques for the development of new tools for an early diagnosis of children who are at risque for developmental language disorders are also pointed out. The closing section contains a synopsis of interactionist approaches to language acquisition, a discussion of the genetic and experiential origin of primitive linguistic elements in acquisition, and a discussion of structural and developmental aspects of bird song in comparison to human language. The two volumes

making up Approaches to Bootstrapping present a state-of-the art interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic overview of recent developments in first language acquisition research.

Contents:

APPROACHES TO BOOTSTRAPPING: VOLUME 1

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: Early Word Learning and its Prerequisites

Bootstrapping from the Signal: Some further directions

Contributions of Prosody to Infants' Segmentation and Representation of Speech

Implicit Memory Support for Language Acquisition

How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese?

Bootstrapping a First Vocabulary

Infants' Developing Competence in Recognizing and Understanding Words in Fluent Speech

Lemma Structure in Language Learning: Comments on representation and realization

Part II: From Input Cues to Syntactic Knowledge

Signal to Syntax: Building a bridge

A Reappraisal of Young Children's Knowledge of Grammatical Morphemes

Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological Cues: An empirical test

Pre-lexical Setting of the Head Complement Parameter through Prosody

Discovering Word Order Regularities: The role of prosodic information for early parameter setting

On the Prosody-Lexicon Interface in Learning Word Order: A study of normally developing and language-impaired children

Index

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS (LALD).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162534

9781282162532

1282162535

9789027298232

9027298238

OCLC:

70769016