This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the largest corpus of early childhood Cantonese. To supplement and illuminate published trends in the literature, carefully gathered reliable and valid empirical data are critically scrutinized. The evidence is used to clarify and examine...
This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in earl...
Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their moth...
The workshop Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language held in Osnabruck in 2009 is the starting point for this book. The workshop developed from the observation that children's production skills appear to precede their comprehension skills in a number of phenomena, e.g. pronouns or negation. The volume provides cross-linguistic evidence for such asymmetric development and investigates grammatical and methodical explanations of the observed asymmetries.
The workshop Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language held in Osnabruck in 2009 is the starting point for this book. The wor...
This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism - namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is a profile of verb acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the conversational language of ten children with autism. Douglas examines whether this profile is typical or atypical compared with verb learning in neurotypical children. Verb use is central to linguistic development, and the ability of children with autism to develop and use verb categories is of interest, because verbs also encode information about the...
This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism - namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key fe...
This volume has two principal objectives: the first is to understand what L2 learners are capable of acquiring in terms of subject expression in Spanish. The second is to identify the distinct contributions of each theoretical model and the like findings among them to discover common ground among varying perspectives in L2 acquisition research.
This volume has two principal objectives: the first is to understand what L2 learners are capable of acquiring in terms of subject expression in Sp...
This book is the first account of variation in the use of Chinese grammatical structures by second language (L2) learners. Its innovative use of linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives to examine variation in L2 learners' use of the Chinese ba construction, and pedagogical guidance for effectively teaching these structures, make it a must-have for SLA researchers and teachers and learners of L2 Chinese.
This book is the first account of variation in the use of Chinese grammatical structures by second language (L2) learners. Its innovative use of li...
This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well as refine and propose new theoretical constructs such as complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children s, adults, and bilinguals acquisition of syntactical, morphological, and phonological structures."
This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well ...
