Grammaticalization and first language acquisition : crosslinguistic perspectives / edited by Dominique Bassano, Maya Hickmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bassano, Dominique.

Hickmann, Maya.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 50.

Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language awareness in children.

Bilingualism in children.

Language acquisition--Age factors.

Language acquisition.

Children--Language.

Children.

Verbal ability in children.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper examines the development of motion expressions in two Korean children. The database consists of bi-weekly to monthly recordings of spontaneous mother-child interaction in their home between ages 1:11 and 4;2. All expressions of motion, both spontaneous and caused, were analyzed following the coding system developed by Hickmann, Hendriks & Champaud (2009). Analyses include form-function relationships between the types of linguistic devices used and the components of Motion expressed (e.g. Path, Manner, Cause), as well as the semantic density of motion-relevant information within the

Contents:

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

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

Abstract.

Exploring patterns of adaptation in child-directed speech during the process of early grammaticalization in child language

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

Sonority, gender and the impact of suffix predictability on the acquisition of German noun plurals

1.1 German noun plurals in acquisition

1.2 Sonority, gender and suffix predictability

1.3 Predictions

2. Method

2.2 Materials

2.3 Procedure

2.4 Transcription and coding

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

Appendix

The impact of typological factors in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition

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

Appendix: Overview of target items

Developmental perspectives on the expression of motion in speech and gesture

1.1 Speaking about motion across languages

1.2 Implications for language and cognitive development

1.3 Relating gestures and speech in language acquisition

2.4 Coding

2.4.1 Speech

2.4.2 Gestures

2.4.3 Statistical analyses

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

4.1 Speech and gesture during language acquisition

4.2 Language and cognition across child languages: future directions

5. Conclusion

Appendix: Stimuli used in the experiment

Language-specificity of motion event expressions in young Korean children

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

3.1 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

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027271891

9027271895

OCLC:

847125607