Linguistic Interference and First-language Attrition
Linguistic Interference and First-language Attrition

Author: Gergely Toth

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780820463483

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Studies on the interaction of languages are gaining importance in today's world, which is characterized by accelerated migration and increasing cultural exchange. In contrast to most research in this field, which concentrates on one embedded language against a matrix language, Gergely Tóth examines the linguistic behaviors in two immigrant speech communities, German and Hungarian, against the background of English. The results of linguistic interference and the ongoing attrition process in these communities are the main focus of this book. By offering a thorough description of linguistic, biographical, and sociolinguistic data spanning three generations in each community, and by contrasting the findings and the detailed error statistics yielded by 500 sentences from each of these two non-related embedded languages, this work contributes to our understanding of contact linguistic mechanisms and sheds light on specific grammatical and lexical features that are most prone to attritional forces. An in-depth historical portrayal of these two speech communities in San Francisco and a complete list of the 1,000 sentences with all identified speaker errors complement the volume.

Transfer and Interference in Language
Transfer and Interference in Language

Author: Monika Brüggemeier

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 9027237352

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The topic of this bibliography in its broadest sense is the subject of a wide range of academic disciplines. Given these circumstances, the particular associations and connotations of the terms 'transfer' and 'interference' in each of these areas are legion, with resultant differences in meaning in the disparate literature on these subjects. And yet it is, in one way or another, contact and interaction of languages in the speaker/hearer and learner, in language acquisition contexts, as well as in society in general, which is basic to these two concepts throughout the various disciplines. The discovery of this basic unitary notion is surely one of the reasons for the new interest in these phenomena. In light of all this, a bibliography cannot at present avoid being highly/ selective in order to demarcate an interdisciplinary area of research in its own right and with its own status. The establishment of such an area is one of our main aims. The focus of interest in this bibliography, admittedly, is directed towards the psycholinguistics of language contact and interaction.

Language Contact and Language Conflict
Language Contact and Language Conflict

Author: Martin Pütz

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9027221421

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The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of intercultural communication. The first part is devoted to theoretical aspects related to the interaction of language and culture and deals with the issue from anthropological, cognitive, and linguistic points of view. Part II raises issues of language policy and language planning such as the manipulation of language in intercultural contact; it includes case studies pertaining to multilingual settings, for example in Africa, Australia, Melanesia, and Europe. The volume opens with a foreword by Dell H. Hymes.

Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research
Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research

Author: Gyde Hansen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 902729108X

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This volume covers a wide range of topics in Interpreting and Translation Research. Some deal with scientometrics and the history of Interpreting Studies, arguments about conceptual analysis, meta-language and interpreters’ risk-taking strategies. Other papers are on research skills like career management, writing communicative abstracts and the practicalities of survey research. Several contributions address empirical issues such as expertise in Simultaneous Interpreting, the cognitive load imposed on interpreters by a non-native accent, the impact of intonation on interpreting quality, linguistic interference in Simultaneous Interpreting, similarities between translation and interpreting, and the relation between translation competence and revision competence. The collection is a tribute to Daniel Gile, in appreciation of his creativity and his commitment to interpreting and translation research. All the contributions in some way show his influence or are related to the models and research he has shaped.

An Introduction to Linguistics
An Introduction to Linguistics

Author: Muhammad Ali Alkhuli

Publisher: Al Manhal

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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It is an introduction to morphology, syntax, phonetics, phonemics, semantics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, with exercises. It can be used as a textbook for university students (the English Department). In fact, it is used as a textbook at several universities in Jordan. Descriptor(s): MORPHOLOGY | ENGLISH LANGUAGE | LINGUISTICS | SEMANTICS | PHONETICS | WRITING | SYNTAX

Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism
Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism

Author: Liliana Sánchez

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9789027252944

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This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence of overt determiners, canonical SVO word order and the absence of accusative marking in bilingual Quechua and by neutralization of case and gender distinctions in direct object pronouns as well as in the emergence of null pronouns with definite antecedents in bilingual Spanish.

An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
An Introduction to Applied Linguistics

Author: Dr. Muhammad Ali Alkhuli

Publisher: دار الفلاح للنشر والتوزيع‎

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 9957552031

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It is a book that deals with different fields of applied linguistics, such as language teaching, language testing, lexicography, translation, etc.

Language Decline and Death in Africa
Language Decline and Death in Africa

Author: Herman Batibo

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781853598081

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The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.