The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect

The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
Author: Ping Li
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110800713

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

Controversies in Applied Linguistics

Controversies in Applied Linguistics
Author: Barbara Seidlhofer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194374446

There are several issues in English teaching on which applied linguists take very different positions: e.g. linguistic imperialism, the validity of critical discourse analysis, the pedagogic relevance of corpus descriptions of language, the theoretical bases of second language acquisition research, the nature of applied linguistics itself. This book presents exchanges between scholars arguing different positions, and directs attention to the key points at issue.

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics
Author: Jeffrey Lidz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1041
Release: 2016
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0199601267

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. The book places language acquisition phenomena in a richly linguistic and comparative context, highlighting the link between linguistic theory, language development, and theories of learning. The book is divided into six parts. Parts I and II examine the acquisition of phonology and morphology respectively, with chapters covering topics such as phonotactics and syllable structure, prosodic phenomena, compound word formation, and processing continuous speech. Part III moves on to the acquisition of syntax, including argument structure, questions, mood alternations, and possessives. In Part IV, chapters consider semantic aspects of language acquisition, including the expression of genericity, quantification, and scalar implicature. Finally, Parts V and VI look at theories of learning and aspects of atypical language development respectively.

The Acquisition of Aspect in a Second Language

The Acquisition of Aspect in a Second Language
Author: Stefano Rastelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108904653

The acquisition of the aspect is a central area in Second Language Acquisition research, the subject of hundreds of papers and dozens of edited volumes, monographs and special issues. This introduction provides the reader not only with a concise and plain presentation of the main hypotheses advanced in the past, but also with an overview of contemporary research. Stefano Rastelli shows how comparison of behavioural (production-comprehension), processing and statistical data is improving - and partially changing - our understanding of how learners acquire the aspectual distinctions of the target-language.

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-05-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004401008

The volume proposes original semantic analyses on grammatical aspect, dealing with some less studied forms coding aspect, revisiting or challenging certain conventionalized views on aspectual categories and shedding light on interactions between aspect and modality, another multifaceted semantic category.

The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology

The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology
Author: M. Rafael Salaberry
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2002-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027296251

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in this volume deal with the analysis of a wide range of target languages: Chinese, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Theoretical frameworks used to evaluate the nature of the empirical evidence range from generative grammar to functional-typological linguistics. Several studies focus on the development of past tense markers, but other issues such as the acquisition of a future marker are also addressed. An introductory chapter outlines some theoretical and methodological issues that serves as relevant preliminary reading for most of the chapters included in this volume. Additionally, a preliminary chapter offers a substantive review of first language acquisition of tense-aspect morphology. The analysis of the various languages included in this volume significantly advances our understanding of this phenomenon, and will serve as an important basis for future research.

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect
Author: Robert I. Binnick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1128
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0195381971

This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition

Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition
Author: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2000-01-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780631221494

This volume explores the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult second language learners of nine target languages. The author focuses on the association of form and meaning in leaders' emerging system of temporal expression. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: the meaning-oriented approach, acquisitional sentences, the aspect hypothesis, the discourse hypothesis, and the effect of instruction. In addition, original longitudinal and cross-sectional studies on the acquisition of English by the author illustrate each of the perspectives and explore the importance of research design and analysis in acquisition research.