An Anthology of Bilingual Child Phonology

An Anthology of Bilingual Child Phonology
Author: Elena Babatsouli
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788928431

This edited book is a collection of studies on protolanguage phonology, referring to the development of children’s autonomous linguistic systems from their first meaningful forms to complete cognitive and articulatory acquisition of language. The volume comprises chapters on child bilingual phonological development, understood as the acquisition or use of more than one linguistic code, whether actual languages, dialects, or communication modes, in an array of contexts. Such contexts include endogenous and exogenous bilingualism, heritage language, bilectalism, trilingualism, and typical and atypical use. The contributed works here will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students investigating language acquisition in bi-/multilingual settings, as well as those working on child phonological development across a variety of languages.

A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody

A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody
Author: Katsura Aoyama
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441987541

In this monograph Katsura Aoyama presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. The author deftly describes differences in adult production, perception, and child acquisition of these distinctions. This is an important work for those interested in recent developments in theoretical and psycholinguistics.

Russian as a Heritage Language

Russian as a Heritage Language
Author: Olesya Kisselev
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1040003842

Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications brings together linguistically and pedagogically oriented research traditions in a comprehensive review of current Russian heritage language (HL) studies. Divided into three parts, the collection offers a variety of frameworks and approaches spanning research on HL speakers’ linguistic and pragmatic competence, literacy development, and sociocultural characteristics of Russian in diaspora. Presenting a wide range of new empirical findings, the volume explores topics at the forefront of HL studies, from assessment of HL learners’ linguistic competence and language attitudes to research on communities and institutional affordances impacting HL acquisition and maintenance. Each chapter connects current research with specific classroom applications, presenting Russian as a global language in various sociopolitical and majority-language contexts. Combining methodological rigor with theoretical insights across diverse areas of language study, Russian as a Heritage Language advances the field of HL pedagogy and serves as essential reading for HL educators and researchers as well as for linguists studying bilingualism.

Introduction to Korean as a Second Language

Introduction to Korean as a Second Language
Author: EunHee Lee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2024-07-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1040085717

Introduction to Korean as a Second Language introduces the basic linguistic make-up of Korean and provides basic knowledge of second language acquisition and up-to-date research on how Korean is learned by adult second language learners (L2 Korean learners). The book synthesizes the existing research and suggests future directions for this relatively new but rapidly growing field. The book covers topics such as the Korean sound system, word and phrase structures of Korean, and meaning in Korean, making it a great resource for those who want to deepen their understanding of the Korean language. This textbook is ideal for use in Korean linguistics courses, and teaching and learning Korean as a foreign language courses. The book would also be good supplementary material for Korean language classes.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136485570

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is designed for use as a reference tool by students, researchers, teachers and professionals with an interest in SLA. The Encyclopedia has the following features: • 252 alphabetized entries written in an accessible style, including cross references to other related entries in the Encyclopedia and suggestions for further reading • Among these, 9 survey entries that cover the foundational areas of SLA in detail: Development in SLA, Discourse and Pragmatics in SLA, Individual Differences in SLA, Instructed SLA, Language and the Lexicon in SLA, Measuring and Researching SLA, Psycholingustics of SLA, Social and Sociocultural Approaches to SLA, Theoretical Constructs in SLA. • The rest of the entries cover all the major subdisciplines, methodologies and concepts of SLA, from “Accommodation” to the “ZISA project.” Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with an academic interest in SLA.

Reality, Universal Ontology and Knowledge Systems: Toward the Intelligent World

Reality, Universal Ontology and Knowledge Systems: Toward the Intelligent World
Author: Abdoullaev, Azamat
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2008-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1599049678

"This book provides cutting-edge research on reality, its nature and fundamental structure, represented both by human minds and intelligent machines.--striving to describe a world model and ontology; organized human knowledge; powerful reasoning systems; and secure communication interoperability between human beings and computing reasoning systems promising the profound revolution in human values and ways of life"--Provided by publisher.

Russia

Russia
Author: Markku Kangaspuro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2000
Genre: Ideology
ISBN: