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Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Language Acquisition
This volume presents original up-to-date research in the field of language acquisition. The contributions reflect experimental work guided by linguistic theory, covering different populations of learners, a wide range of linguistic phenomena, a variety of empirical methods, and a rich set of typologically different languages. The studies investigate first and second language acquisition, as well as acquisition in children with developmental language disorder or hearing impairment. The different chapters address various phenomena in the areas of morpho-syntax, phonology, and semantics. This edited collection of papers is a valuable reference for researchers who are interested in language acquisition research and its multifaceted nature. The book highlights the fruitful connection between empirical research and linguistic theory, making it interesting to both psycholinguists and theoretical linguists. The experimental studies collected in this book contribute to our understanding of how different types of learners acquire and process language and can offer novel insights to theoretical linguistics as well.
Demystifying Bilingualism
This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular “language myths”, which often manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has consistently modelled the coexistence between languages in the brain using metaphors of struggle, conflict and competition. However, an ideological shift from nationalist and monolingual ideologies to the celebration of bilingualism under multicultural and neoliberal ideologies in the course of the 20th century fostered opposing interpretations of language coexistence in the brain and its effects on bilinguals at different moments in time. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics, Cognitive and Computational Linguistics, and Critical Metaphor Analysis.
Sprachverarbeitung im Zweitspracherwerb
Die Forschung zur Online-Sprachverarbeitung bei Lernern einer Zweitsprache ist ein wichtiger Teilbereich der Zweitspracherwerbsforschung. Die meisten Publikationen zu diesem Thema wenden sich jedoch an ein spezialisiertes Publikum. Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbands bieten jeweils zu einem Teilbereich der Forschung zur Sprachverarbeitung des Deutschen als Zweitsprache einen Überblick über aktuelle Forschungsfragen, Methoden und zentrale Befunde und präsentieren zum Teil auch neue empirische Ergebnisse. Inhaltlich werden Fragestellungen zum lexikalischen Zugriff und zur morphosyntaktischen Verarbeitung ebenso abgedeckt wie zur Diskursproduktion und -rezeption. Insgesamt bietet der Band dadurch einen für ein breiteres Publikum zugänglichen Überblick über die Sprachverarbeitungsforschung insbesondere zum Deutschen als Zweitsprache.
Mirror Bound
Conspirator. Failure. Murderer. Seraphina Dovetail is used to being called all these things. As the seventh-born daughter to a witch, and the cause of her mother losing both her powers and her life, Sera has always felt isolated. Until Nikolai Barrington. The young professor not only took an interest in Sera—he took her into his home, hired her for his moonlighting detective agency, and gave her the one thing she’d always dreamed of: a chance. Under Barrington’s tutelage, Sera can finally take the School of Continuing Magic entrance exam to become an inspector and find her family. Now if only she could stop her growing attraction to her maddening boss—which is about as easy as this fiery elementalist quitting setting things on fire. But when ghosts start dragging Sera into possessions so deep she can barely escape, and then the souls of lost witches and wizards appear trapped in mirrors, these two opposites will have to work together to uncover a much deeper secret that could destroy the Witchling world... The Witchling Academy series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Seventh Born Book #2 Mirror Bound
El trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje (TDL)
El trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje (TDL) es una alteración severa y persistente que afecta al desarrollo del lenguaje oral sin la presencia de otro trastorno que cause esa alteración y que tiene importantes implicaciones en el desarrollo personal, social y escolar. Este manual tiene el objetivo principal de aportar los avances más relevantes de la investigación sobre el TDL, pero poniendo énfasis en sus implicaciones en la práctica. Por ello, el libro plantea una estructura que parte de la caracterización del trastorno. Se centra luego en la evaluación, el diagnóstico y los principios de intervención, para después abordar las principales afectaciones en los diferentes ámbitos de la comunicación. Posteriormente, se aborda la atención de los menores con TDL en la familia y en la escuela y las implicaciones en el desarrollo emocional y social.
Action Meets Word
Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume represents a proliferation of research on the frontier of early verb learning, enhancing our understanding of the building blocks of language and considering new ways to assess key aspects of language growth.
Developing Narrative Comprehension
Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.
MacArthur-Bates CDI Words and Gestures
These desktop scannable Words & Gestures forms tap into parents' day?to?day knowledge about their children's language and communication skills between the ages of 8 and 18 months.
Networks of Outrage and Hope
Networks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common: they are all interwoven inextricably with the creation of autonomous communication networks supported by the Internet and wireless communication. In this new edition of his timely and important book, Manuel Castells examines the social, cultural and political roots of these new social movements, s...
