Author: I. M. Roca
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110870371
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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No detailed description available for "Logical Issues in Language Acquisition".

Author: Susan M Gass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521378117
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This volume explores how a second language is acquired and what learners must do in order to achieve proficiency. The hardback edition is a collection of original essays that approaches second language acquisition from a linguistic rather than a sociological, psychological, or purely pedagogical perspective. A wide range of viewpoints and approaches is represented. However, all authors agree on the fundamental importance of linguistic theory in the study of second language acquisition. Few works have explored in depth how a second language is acquired and what the second language learner must do mentally to achieve proficiency in another language. The essays in this book provide an incisive analysis of these questions. For greater accessibility, the chapters are arranged topically from those covering the broad area of theories of acquisition to those focusing specifically on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, and phonology in another language.

Author: C. L. Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780262523899
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attention from linguists and psychologists throughout the world during the past several years. Reduced to essentials, the problem is that of discovering the character of the mental capacities that make it possible for human beings to attain knowledge of their language on the basis of fragmentary and haphazard early linguistic experience. A fundamental assumption running through all of these contributions is that people possess strong innate predispositions that are critical for success in this task.

Author: Norbert Hornstein
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Dany Adone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521199654
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112316002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".

Author: Bonnie D. Schwartz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027252998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language acquisition: How do learners move from one developmental stage to another and how and why do grammars develop in a certain fashion? Building on considerable previous research, the authors address both general and specific issues related to paths of development. These issues are tackled through considering studies of L1 and L2 children and L2 adults learning a range of languages including Dutch, English, French, German, Greek and Japanese.

Author: Allison Burkette
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108424805
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Introduces students to the scientific study of language, using the basic principles of complexity theory.

Author: Norbert Hornstein
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262081375
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author: Lydia White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521796477
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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