The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

Author: Dan Isaac Slobin

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1317785835

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Extending the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, this volume contains chapters on seven more languages, including a section on ergative languages. Languages in this volume include: Georgian; Greenlandic; K'iche Mayan; Warlpiri; Mandarin; Scandinavian and Sesotho.


Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition

Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition

Author: Jasone Cenoz

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781853595493

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Third language acquisition is a common phenomenon, which presents some specific characteristics as compared to second language acquisition. This volume adopts a psycholinguistic approach in the study of cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition and focuses on the role of previously acquired languages and the conditions that determine their influence.


Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition

Author: Susan Foster-Cohen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-07-16

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 023024078X

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This book provides a snapshot of the field of language acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the multiplicity of approaches that characterize the field and provides a review of current topics and debates, as well as addressing some of the connections between sub-fields and possible future directions for research.


Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning

Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning

Author: Håkan Ringbom

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1853599344

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This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close and distant target languages.


Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language

Author: Jiansheng Guo

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 0805859985

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Inspired by the pioneering work of Dan Slobin, this volume discusses language learning from a crosslinguistic perspective, integrates language specific factors in narrative skill, covers the major theoretical issues, and explores the relationship between language and cognition.


Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

Author: Rosa Alonso Alonso

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2016-01-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1783094842

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This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters focusing on vocabulary, morphosyntactic categories, semantic structures, and phonetic and phonological structures feature in the volume, as do over 20 languages, in order to offer new insights into both theoretical and empirical issues in CLI, including the consequences of great or little similarity in structures between languages. The relevance of CLI research for teaching is discussed in a number of chapters, as is the phenomenon of multilingualism. The collection will appeal to researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, teachers and professionals interested in the field of CLI in SLA.


New Trends in Crosslinguistic Influence and Multilingualism Research

New Trends in Crosslinguistic Influence and Multilingualism Research

Author: Gessica De Angelis

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1847694446

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This book presents the latest developments in crosslinguistic influence (CLI) and multilingualism research. The contributors, both veteran researchers and relative newcomers to the field, situate their research in current debates in terms of theory and data analysis and they present it in an accessible way. The chapters investigate how and when native and non-native language knowledge is used in language production. They focus on lexis, syntax, tense-aspect, phonology of multilingual production and link it to a range of concepts such as redundancy, affordances, metalinguistic awareness and L2 status. The empirical data have been collected from participants with a wide combination of languages: besides English, German, French and Spanish, there is Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Chinese and Catalan.