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Language Acquisition
This book examines the evidence relative to the idea that there is an age factor in first and second language acquisition, evidence that has sources ranging from studies of feral children to evaluations of language programmes in primary schools. It goes on to explore the various explanations that have been advanced to account for such evidence. Finally, it looks at the educational ramifications of the age question, with particular regard to formal second language teaching in the early school years and in ‘third age’ contexts.
Language Development and Age
This book was first published in 2007. The anecdotal view of language acquisition is that children learn language with apparent ease, no instruction and in very little time, while adults find learning a new language to be cognitively challenging, labour intensive and time-consuming. In this book Herschensohn examines whether early childhood is a critical period for language acquisition after which individuals cannot learn a language as native speakers. She argues that a first language is largely susceptible to age constraints, showing major deficits past the age of twelve. Second-language acquisition also shows age effects, but with a range of individual differences. The competence of expert adult learners, the unequal achievements of child learners of second languages, and the lack of consistent evidence for a maturational cut-off, all cast doubt on a critical period for second-language acquisition.
Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development
Leading scholars examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development.
Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change
This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various sociolinguistic contexts acquire language variation; on the other, historical sociolinguistics as the field that focuses on the study of historical patterns of language variation and change. The overarching rationale for this interdisciplinary dialogue is that all forms of language change start and spread as the result of individual acts of acquisition throughout the speakers’ lives. The thirteen...
The impact of language-specific factors in first language acquisition
L’étude de l’expression du mouvement dans un cadre typologique révèle des différences importantes dans la morphosyntaxe et la sémantique de l’expression du mouvement, dont les recherches en psycholinguistique commencent à étudier les implications pour l’acquisition du langage. Cette thèse examine l’expression du mouvement volontaire et provoqué chez des enfants et adultes français et allemands. Les résultats concernant les adultes montrent clairement l’utilisation des constructions typiques attendues pour chaque type de langue (langues à satellites- vs. à cadrage verbal). En allemand, les composantes sémantiques (CAUSE, MANIERE et TRAJECTOIRE) sont systématiquement...
Le développement de la parole chez l'enfant âgé de 6 à 11 ans
Propose des analyses des conduites langagières, de l'acquisition du langage, des aspects non verbaux de la communication parlée et de leurs fonctions dans la parole et dans la pensée chez les enfants de 6 à 11 ans.
Changing Minds
Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives. We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion throughout our lifetime, even as we age. Indeed, compared with other aspects of cognition, language seems to be fairly resilient through the process of aging. In Changing Minds, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts examine how aging affects language—and how language affects aging. Kreuz and Roberts report that what appear to be changes in an older person's language ability are actually produced by declines in such other cognitive processes as memory and perception. Some language abilities, including vocab...
Modality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues
Modality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues
