Autore	Adone Dany
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1994
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (179 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	447/.96982
Collana	Language acquisition & language disorders
Soggetto topico	Creole dialects, French - Mauritius Language acquisition
ISBN	1-283-28020-5 9786613280206 90-272-8174-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Creole languages; 3. A Creole in a multilingual society; 4. Methodology; 5. An outline of Mauritian Creole; 6. Tense, Mood and Aspect; 7. Modals; 8. The long and short forms of verbs; 9. Complex constructions; 10. Negation; 11. Empty categories; 12. The development of IP; 13. General conclusion; Notes; References; Appendix 1: List of tables; Appendix 2: Abbreviations used in the text; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910789639303321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina	401/.93
Altri autori (Persone)	KiddEvan James
Collana	Trends in language acquisition research
Soggetto topico	Language acquisition - Age factors Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses Language awareness in children Communicative competence in children
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-32903-4 9786613329035 90-272-8340-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The Acquisition of Relative Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction: The acquisition of relative clauses; References; 1.Relative clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Emergentism; 3. The syntax of relative clauses; 4. The processing of relative clauses; Prominence; The distance between filler and gap; Chinese; Japanese and Korean; Summary; 5. The acquisition of relative clauses; The path problem; The closure problem; 6. Concluding remarks; References; 2.A connectionist account of the acquisition and processing of relative clauses 1. Introduction2. The relative clause accessibility hierarchy; 2.1 The accessibility hierarchy in development; 3. Modeling the acquisition of relative clauses; 3.1 Language and method; 3.2 Modeling results; 4. From acquisition to adult processing; 4.1 Experience and relative clauses processing; 5. Conclusion; References; 3.Learning from social interaction; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Development of linguistic constructions in usage-based and constructivist approaches: Chunks, schemas, and prototypes; 2. Form and function of relative clauses in adult-adult interactions 3. Form and function of relative clauses in child-adult interactions3.1 A cross-linguistic comparison of subject and object RCs in children's and adults' speech; 3.2 A cross-linguistic comparison of the head NPs in children's and adults' RC constructions; 3.3 A cross-linguistic comparison of the function of RCs in children's and adults' speech; 4. Experimental evidence for relative-clause chunks and prototypes; 4.1 Propositional complexity; 4.2 Similarity to simple main clauses; 4.3 Linguistic and semantic context of subject and object RCs; 5. New focus on function; 6. Conclusion; References 4.Relative clause acquisition in Hebrew and the learning of constructionsIntroduction; Relative clauses in Hebrew; The developmental path of relative clauses in Hebrew; Production; The corpus; Coding; Results and discussion; How adult-like are children's relative clauses?; How does the construction develop over time?; Comprehension; Input patterns and gender agreement; Method; Results and discussion; Integrating multiple cues; What early constructions look like and how they develop over time; Conclusions; References; 5.Finnish; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Relative clauses in Finnish What we know about RC acquisition based on observational studiesMethod; Corpus; Searches; Coding; Results; Relative clauses in Piia's speech; Discussion; The head referent; Centre-embedding; The syntactic role of the relativized element; The number of relative clauses in the Finnish data; Conclusion; References; 6.Learning to produce Quechua relative clauses; Introduction; Quechua nominalized relative clauses; Questions and issues; Production of externally-headed, internally-headed, and free relatives Ease of production of relative clauses according to the function of the relativized Noun Phrase
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457502003321

Autore	Dietrich Rainer
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1995
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina	401/.93
Altri autori (Persone)	KleinWolfgang <1946 Feb. 3-> NoyauColette CoenenJosée
Collana	Studies in bilingualism (SiBil)
Soggetto topico	Second language acquisition Grammar, Comparative and general - Temporal constructions
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-272-8279-X 9786613222169 1-283-22216-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	THE ACQUISITION OF TEMPORALITY IN A SECOND LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. Frame of analysis; 3. The acquisition of English; 4. The acquisition of German; 5. The acquisition of Dutch; 6. The acquisition of French; 7. The acquisition of Swedish; 8. Conclusions; Author index; Subject index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456502503321