Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (274 p.)
Disciplina	440
Collana	Studies on Language Acquisition
Soggetto topico	Romance languages Romance languages - Acquisition
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-5015-0038-4 1-61451-357-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction. The acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective: New challenges and approaches -- 1. Superset and subset grammars in second language acquisition: The role of sonority in the representation of /s/+consonant clusters -- 2. Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese -- 3. Microparametric variation and the acquisition of quantitative de in French -- 4. Semantic features and L1 transfer in the L2 learning of differential object marking: The view from Romanian and Persian -- 5. Elicited production of who-questions by school-aged Italian-speaking children -- 6. Mood interpretation in Spanish: towards an encompassing view of L1 and L2 interface variability -- 7. How do German speakers acquire the Tense-Aspect-System in Spanish as a Second Language? An empirical study -- 8. The non-native acquisition of Spanish (un)interpretable features by Dutch L1 learners -- 9. The elicited oral production of Italian restrictive relative clauses and cleft sentences in typically developing children and children with developmental dyslexia -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466507203321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (388 p.)
Disciplina	947.084
Collana	Communications Monograph [CM]
Soggetto topico	Mass media Social action Social Science Journalism & Communications Communication & Mass Media
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-19391-0 9786612193910 3-11-019738-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Action theory and communication research: An introduction -- 2 Action theory as part of social science -- 3 With more hindsight: Conceptual problems and some ways forward for media use research -- 4 The ‘media use as social action’ approach: Theory, methodology, and research evidence so far -- 5 The foundation of communication and action in consciousness: Confronting action theory with systems theoretical arguments -- 6 Media communication and social interaction: Perspectives on action theory based reception research -- 7 Using protocol analysis in television news research: Proposal and first tests -- 8 Reconceptualizing media literacy -- 9 Elderly people’s media use in the context of personal meaning -- 10 ‘Para-social interaction’: Social interaction as a matter of fact? -- 11 Action theoretical approaches in organizational communication -- 12 Media use as an adaptation or coping tool in prison -- 13 Juxtaposing direct experience with media experience: Does reality really matter? -- 14 The home as a multimedia environment: Families’ conception of space and the introduction of information and communication technologies in the home -- 15 Patterns in television news use -- 16 Do well-balanced exemplars in news stories provide food for thought? -- 17 Between altruism and narcissism: An action theoretical approach of personal homepages devoted to existential meaning -- 18 Ownership and use of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media among ethnic minority youth in The Netherlands. The role of the ethno-cultural position -- 19 The stereotypical portrayal of Germans and its effects on a Dutch audience -- 20 Occupational practices of Dutch journalists in a television newsroom -- Backmatter
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454441803321

Autore	Bentz Christian
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (234 pages)
Disciplina	417.7
Collana	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Variation Linguistic change Word (Linguistics)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-055777-0 3-11-056010-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Languages as Adaptive Systems -- 3. Language Change and Population Structure -- 4. Lexical Diversity across Languages of the World -- 5. Descriptive Factors: Language "Internal" Effects -- 6. Explanatory Factors: Language "External" Effects -- 7. Grouping Factors: Language Families and Areas -- 8. Predicting Lexical Diversity: Statistical Models -- 9. Explaining Diversity: Multiple Factors Interacting -- 10. Further Problems and Caveats -- 11. Conclusions: Universality and Diversity -- 12. Appendix A: Advanced Entropy Estimators -- 13. Appendix B: Multiple Regression Assumptions -- 14. Appendix C: Mixed-effects Regression Assumptions -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466708403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	418
Collana	Studies on Language Acquisition
Soggetto topico	Second language acquisition
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-5015-1697-3 1-5015-0048-1 1-61451-517-4
Classificazione	ER 925
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Perspectives on advanced second language proficiency -- 1 Pragmatic markers in high-level second language use -- 2 Morphosyntax and discourse in highlevel second language use -- 3 The lexicon of advanced L2 learners -- 4 Formulaic language in advanced second language acquisition and use -- 5 Reading proficiency in advanced L2 users -- 6 Linguistic outsourcing and native-like performance in international call centres: An overview -- 7 The polyglot – an initial characterization on the basis of multiple anecdotal accounts -- 8 The exceptional ability of polyglots to achieve high-level proficiency in numerous languages -- Subject index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466506603321