Lexical Acquisition
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| Author | : Eve V. Clark |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521484640 |
Without words, children can't talk about people, places, things, actions, relations, or states, and they have no grammatical rules. Without words, there would be no sound structure, no word structure, and no syntax. The lexicon is central in language, and in language acquisition. Eve Clark argues for this centrality and for the general principles of conventionality and contrast at the core of language acquisition. She looks at the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings, and how they map their meanings on to forms. The book is unusual in dealing with data from a wide variety of languages, in its emphasis on the general principles children rely on as they analyse complex word forms, and in the broad perspective it takes on lexical acquisition.
| Author | : Natasha Tokowicz |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2014-10-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1135914257 |
Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and perspectives from Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition. The book begins by introducing the dominant issues addressed by research in the field in cognitive science and discussing the relevant models in the literature. It later moves toward exploring the different factors that impact second language lexical processing as well as cognitive neuroscientific approaches to the study of the issues discussed throughout the book. A concluding chapter offers a global summary of the key issues and research strands, in addition to directions for future research, with a list of recommended readings providing students and researchers with avenues for further study.
| Author | : James Coady |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0521561329 |
A collection of articles on direct and indirect second language vocabulary acquisition.
| Author | : D. Geoffrey Hall |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 678 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262582490 |
The contributors to this volume examine the multidimensional way in which infants and children acquire the lexicon of their native language.
| Author | : James Milton |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2009-10-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1847693784 |
Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition provides an examination of the background to testing vocabulary knowledge in a second language and in particular considers the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge such as aural and written word recognition, the link with word meaning, and vocabulary depth. These are illustrated and the scores they produce are demonstrated to provide normative data. Vocabulary acquisition from course books and in the classroom in examined, as is vocabulary uptake from informal tasks. This book ties scores on tests of vocabulary breadth to performance on standard foreign language examinations and on hierarchies of communicative performance such as the CEFR.
| Author | : Sandrine Zufferey |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027256055 |
The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality and full implications of this connection remain mostly to be explored. This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the interface between language, communication, and theory of mind, and puts forward an innovative proposal regarding the role of discourse connectives for this interface. The proposed analysis of connectives is tested from the perspective of their acquisition, using empirical methods such as corpus analysis and controlled experiments, thus placing the study of connectives within the emerging framework of experimental pragmatics.
| Author | : F. Boers |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2009-09-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0230245005 |
Empirically validated techniques to accelerate learners' uptake of 'chunks' demonstrate that pathways for insightful chunk-learning become available if one is willing to question the assumption that lexis is arbitrary. Care is taken to ensure that the pedagogical proposals are in accordance with insights from vocabulary research generally.
| Author | : Dagmar Bittner |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2013-04-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311030869X |
The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis.
| Author | : Lila R. Gleitman |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262571098 |
This text brings together investigations from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (with an emphasis on linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science) to examine how young children rapidly acquire the vocabulary of their native tongue, and with few errors along the way.
| Author | : Qing Ma |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9783039116669 |
This book offers readers a basic grounding in L2 vocabulary acquisition. In addition, it provides theoretical analyses and empirical data regarding Chinese learners of English: their specific learning difficulties, needs, strategies, etc. The book provides an overview of the research in L2 vocabulary acquisition in the last two decades. Linguistic, psycholinguistic, socio-cultural, neurolinguistic, and corpus linguistics analyses are considered. The book constructs a comprehensive framework for Computer Assisted Vocabulary Learning (CAVL). This is achieved by providing an overview of vocabulary learning in CALL and then proposing a big framework within which most vocabulary learning programs can be conceptualized. The author then gives a detailed account of how Chinese learners approach English vocabulary learning. She provides an up-to-date picture of the overall situation regarding the language policies adopted, the traditional, orthodox approach to language learning, and the recent reforms implemented in Chinese universities. General and specific vocabulary learning difficulties encountered by Chinese learners are documented and analysed and empirical studies are reported.
