1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459194603321

Autore

Yip Virginia <1962->

Titolo

The bilingual child : early development and language contact / / Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-107-19541-1

1-139-23489-7

1-283-37814-0

1-139-18555-1

1-139-18914-X

9786613378149

1-139-18786-4

1-139-19045-8

1-139-18323-0

0-511-62074-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge approaches to language contact

Disciplina

404/.2083

Soggetti

Bilingualism in children

Language acquisition

Languages in contact

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Bilingual Child; Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and figures; Series editor's foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Practical and cognitive implications; 1.2 Research questions; 1.3 The ecology of bilingual development; 1.4 The Hong Kong speech community; 1.5 Bilingual development and language contact; 1.6 Mechanisms of language contact; 1.6.1 Contact-induced grammaticalization; 1.7 Summary; 1.8 Overview of the book; 2 Theoretical framework

2.1 Epistemological status of bilingual acquisition2.1.1 Bilingual acquisition and second language acquisition; 2.1.2 Forms of early



bilingualism; 2.2 The logical problem of bilingual acquisition and the poverty of the dual stimulus; 2.3 Language differentiation in bilingual acquisition; 2.4 Language dominance in early bilingual development; 2.4.1 Defining language dominance; 2.5 Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual development; 2.5.1 Defining transfer and cross-linguistic influence; 2.5.2 Language dominance and transfer; 2.5.3 Bilingual bootstrapping and developmental asynchrony

2.6 Input ambiguity and learnability2.6.1 Ambiguous data and unambiguous triggers in first language acquisition; 2.6.2 Input ambiguity in bilingual development; 2.6.3 Forms of input ambiguity; 2.7 Vulnerable domains in bilingual development; 2.8 Bilingual development and language contact; 2.8.1 Creoles and other contact languages; 2.8.2 Children versus adults in the development of contact languages; 2.8.3 Child bilingualism in the formation of contact languages; 2.9 Summary; 3 Methodology; 3.1 Methodologies in the study of bilingual acquisition; 3.1.1 The case study

3.1.2 Advantages and limitations of studying spontaneous speech3.1.3 The diary method; 3.1.4 Longitudinal corpus data; 3.1.5 Experimental methods; 3.1.6 Studying and sampling input; 3.2 The Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Corpus and other data for this study; 3.2.1 Children for our case study; 3.2.2 Recording; 3.2.3 Transcription; 3.2.4 Tagging; 3.2.5 The Hong Kong Cantonese Child Language Corpus (Cancorp); 3.2.6 Diary data; 3.3 Quantitative measures of bilingual development: language dominance and MLU differentials; 3.3.1 Measuring dominance: MLUw; 3.3.2 MLU differentials

3.4 Other indicators of language dominance3.4.1 Language preferences and silent periods; 3.4.2 Code-mixing; 3.5 Conclusions; 4 Wh-interrogatives: to move or not to move?; 4.1 Wh-interrogatives in English and Cantonese; 4.1.1 Wh-in-situ in Chinese; 4.1.2 Wh-in-situ in English; 4.2 Wh-interrogatives in bilingual children; 4.2.1 Methodological preliminaries; 4.2.2 Wh-in-situ in monolingual acquisition of English; 4.2.3 Wh-in-situ interrogatives in the bilingual children's English; 4.2.4 Bilingual and monolingual acquisition of wh-questions compared

4.2.5 Quantitative and qualitative analysis of wh-in-situ

Sommario/riassunto

How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of mastering a first language. Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and Cantonese), this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to the two languages in the children's environment. While each bilingual child's profile is unique, the children studied are shown to develop quite differently from monolingual children. The authors demonstrate significant interactions between the children's developing grammars, as well as the important role played by language dominance in their bilingual development. Based on original research and using findings from the largest available multimedia bilingual corpus, the book will be welcomed by students and scholars working in child language acquisition, bilingualism and language contact.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789587803321

Titolo

Diffusion and thermodynamics of materials : D&T '06 : proceedings of the 9th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials, Brno, Czech Republic, September 13-15 2006 / / edited by J. Čermák and I. Stloukal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durnten-Zurich : , : Trans Tech Publications Ltd., , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

3-03813-144-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Defect and diffusion forum, , 1012-0386 ; ; volume 263

Altri autori (Persone)

ČermákJ (Jiří)

StloukalI (Ivo)

Disciplina

536.7

Soggetti

Diffusion

Materials - Thermal properties

Thermodynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials; Table of Contents; Interdiffusion Data in Multicomponent Alloys as a Source of Quantitative Fundamental Diffusion Information; Diffusion and Phase Transformations in Multi-Component Systems; From Phase Equilibria to Transformation Dynamics; Metastable Phase Formation in Multi-Component Aluminium Alloys; Atomic Migration in Bulk and Thin Film L10 Alloys: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Self-Diffusion in Covalent Amorphous Solids - A Comparative Study Using Neutron Reflectometry and SIMS

Spatially Periodic Formation of Nanoparticles in Metal-Doped GlassesAtomic Motion and Diffusion Mechanism of Hydrogen in Amorphous Ceramics of the System Si-B-C-N; NGR Investigation of Grain-Boundary Diffusion in Poly- and Nanocrystalline Nb; Interfacial Interaction and Diffusion in Binary Systems; Collective and Tracer Diffusion via a Defect Cluster in LSGM; Mechanism and Kinetics of Plasma Nitriding of the Nb-Alloyed PM Tool Steel; Effect of Fe Addition on Ordering Kinetics in Ni3Al1-xFex System. Monte Carlo Simulation



The Thermodynamic Database for the Development of Modern Lead-Free SoldersThermodynamic Properties of Liquid Binary Transition-Metal Alloys in the Bretonnet-Silbert Model; Steam Oxidation Behaviour of Ni-Based Single Crystalline Superalloy for the Advanced Gas Turbine; The Effect of Oxide Cracks on Hydrogen Ingress in ZrO2; Kinetic and Thermodynamic Aspects of High-Temperature Oxidation of Selected Ti-Based Alloys; The BFS Method Combined with Chemical Cluster Interactions for the Study of Order-Disorder Transitions; Thermodynamic Aspects of Diffusion Paths in Ternary Systems

The Influence of Thermodynamic Properties of Alloys on Effective Interdiffusion Coefficients in Ternary SystemsIron-Based Nanocomposite Synthesised by Microwave Plasma Decomposition of Iron Pentacarbonyl; Diffusion of Carbon and Manganese in Fe-C-Mn; Tracer Diffusion of Molybdenum in Crystallized Fe79-yMo8Cu1B12+y Alloy; Zn Diffusion in Binary Base of Light Mg-Al Alloys; Simulation of Precipitates Evolution in Steels; Surface Diffusion and Island Growth; Diffusional Growth Kinetics of Boride Layers at the 13% Cr Steel Interface with Amorphous Boron; Diffusion of Zinc in Two-Phase Mg-Al Alloy

Microstructural Stability of Dissimilar Weld Joint of Creep-Resistant Steels with Increased Nitrogen Content at 500 - 900 °CDiffusion in the Presence of Twin Boundaries; Grain Boundary Self-Diffusion in Nickel; Study of Kirkendall Effect in Ni/Ni3Al Welded Joint after the High Temperature Annealing; Diffusion in Transition Metal Diborides - An Overview; Carbon and Nitrogen Activities of Materials of Weld Joints; Study of Reaction Diffusivity in the Copper-Indium-Tin Ternary System; Analysis of the Rate of Oxidation of the Arema Steel at High-Temperature; Keywords Index; Authors Index

Sommario/riassunto

The diffusion of atoms is an inherent feature of matter, and the rules which describe the phenomenon are important from both the purely practical and the theoretical perspectives: it is a major rate-controlling process in phase transformations, crystal growth, recrystallization and recovery, creep, sintering, surface treatment and many other situations. Being typically a non-equilibrium macroscopic phenomenon, diffusion can be properly described in terms of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. At the same time, phenomenological diffusion characteristics represent the mean values of mi



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795892803321

Autore

Marañón Luis <1935->

Titolo

Asuntos públicos : lobby y diplomacia corporativa / / Luis Marañón and Julio César Herrero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madrid, Spain : , : Editorial Dykinson, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

84-11-22086-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Disciplina

342

Soggetti

Lobbying

Public administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia