The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition : Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780805824216 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 360 str.

Dan Isaac Slobin;Slobin; Dan Isaac Slobin

Opis

In this fifth volume, the contributors attempt to expand the contexts in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically. The chapters open themes that have been touched on, anticipated and promised in earlier volumes in the series. The study of child language has been situated in the disciplines of psychology and linguistics, and has been most responsive to dominant issues in those fields such as nativism and learning, comprehension and production, errors, input and universals of morphology and syntax. The context has primarily been that of the individual child, interacting with a parent, and deciphering the linguistic code. The code has been generally treated in these volumes as a system of morphology and syntax, with little attention to phonology and prosody. Attention has been paid occasionally to the facts that the child is acquiring languages in a sociocultural setting and that languages is used in contexts of semantic and pragmatic communication.

Recenzje

"This is the fifth volume in a renowned series...the volume will reward those who wish to delve deeply. There is much here of interest for any serious scholar of language development."
—Studies in Second Language

"...it is a considerable merit of this volume that, even where its contributors do not offer definitive answers, the presentation of the problems involved is such as to arouse the reader's interest and stimulate further discussion. In addition, this thought-provoking and substantial book will, I think, not only provide useful and illuminating reading for researchers and students in the fields of psycholinguistics and developmental psychology, but also go beyond these purely specialist interests."
—Prikazi, Ocjene, Osvrti

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. D.I. Slobin, The Universal, the Typological, and the Particular in Acquisition. S. Choi, Language-Specific Input and Early Semantic Development: Evidence From Children Learning Korean. A.M. Peters, Language Typology, Prosody, and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes. E.V.M. Lieven, Variation in a Crosslinguistic Context. D.I. Slobin, The Origins of Grammaticizable Notions: Beyond the Individual Mind.

O autorze

Dan Isaac Slobin