Auch and noch in child and adult German / by Ulrike Nederstigt.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Nederstigt, Ulrike, 1968-

Series:

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

Studies on language acquisition ; 23

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 1861-4248 ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auch (The German word).

Noch (The German word).

German language--Particles.

German language.

German language--Syntax.

German language--Acquisition.

Focus (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Auch" and "noch" in Child and Adult German is an empirical study of the early acquisition of "auch" (also) and "noch" (also/still) in German, and the adult use of these additive particles in spoken language. It centres around the question of how children acquire these particles, but it also investigates the way in which adults use these particles in order to determine what children actually have to learn and what the input they get is like. Previous studies on focus particles in adult German mainly focused on the semantic and syntactic properties of primarily constructed examples. Based on several corpora of spoken German, this is the first comprehensive study of natural language data that systematically analyses the intonation of focus particle utterances as well as their semantic, syntactic and information structural properties. The study of the child data, an extensive longitudinal corpus of one German child, was carried out against the background of the adult data. It offers a thorough characterisation of the acquisition of the two additive particles that also takes into account results from previous studies on the acquisition of focus particles, mainly on their comprehension. In addition to studying the acquisition of these particles, the author also introduces an analysis of focus particles that emphasizes the differences between stressed and unstressed particles, which makes this book not only interesting to researchers in language acquisition and psycholinguistics, but also to those interested in phonology/prosody, semantics, syntax and information structure.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Focus particles - A review of the literature

Chapter 3: Auch and noch in spoken German - Aim, data and method of the study

Chapter 4: Results

Chapter 5: Conclusions and discussion

Chapter 6: A fresh look at focus particles

Chapter 7: Child language - Aim, data and method

Chapter 8: Child language results

Chapter 9: The acquisition of Auch and Noch

Chapter 10: General conclusions and discussion

Appendices

Notes

References

Subject Index

Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Dissertation Humboldt-Universität Berlin 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-397) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110909869

3110909863

OCLC:

979749263