Corpora in language acquisition research : history, methods, perspectives / edited by Heike Behrens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Behrens, Heike.

International Association for the Study of Child Language.

Series:

Trends in language acquisition research ; v. 6.

Trends in language acquisition research, 1569-0644 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition--Research--Data processing.

Language acquisition.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for the concise explorations of formal phenomena, the quick retrieval of errors, and reliability checks. New probabilistic and connectionist computations investigate how children integrate the multiple sources of information available in the input, and new statistical methods compute rates of acquisition as well as error rates dependent on sample size. Sample analyses show how multi-modal corpora are used to investigate the interaction of discourse and linguistic structure, how cross-linguistic generalizations for acquisition can be formulated and tested, and how individual variation can be explored. Finally, ways in which corpus research interacts with computational linguistics and experimental research are presented.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of contributors

Preface

Corpora in language acquisition research: History, methods, perspectives

How big is big enough? Assessing the reliability of data from naturalistic samples

Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals

Learning the English auxiliary: A usage-based approach

Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntax

Integration of multiple probabilistic cues in syntax acquisition

Enriching CHILDES for morphosyntactic analysis

Exploiting corpora for language acquisition research

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-229) and index.

ISBN:

9786612105203

9781282105201

1282105205

9789027290267

9027290261

OCLC:

272341521