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Format: 1 online resource (xv, 319 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 0-511-62069-1

Content: Language addressed to children, or 'Baby Talk', became the subject of research interest thirty years ago. Since then, the linguistic environment of infants and toddlers has been widely studied. Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition is an up-to-date statement of the facts and controversies surrounding 'Baby Talk', its nature and likely effects. With contributions from leading linguists and psychologists, it explores language acquisition in different cultures and family contexts, in typical and atypical learners, and in second and foreign language learners. It is designed as a sequel to the now famous Talking to Children, edited by Catherine Snow and Charles Ferguson, and Professor Snow here provides an introduction, comparing issues of importance in the field today with the previous concerns of researchers.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Beginning from baby talk: twenty years of research on input in interaction / , The language of primary caregivers / , The changing role of negative evidence in theories of language development / , Crosslinguistic and crosscultural aspects of language addressed to children / , Child-directed speech and influences on language acquisition: methodology and interpretation / , The rest of the family: the role of fathers and siblings in early language development / , Michelle E. Barton adn Michael Tomasello -- , Phonetic and prosodic aspects of baby talk / , Language learning at home and school / , Language interaction with atypical language learners / , Interaction and childhood deafness / , Input and interaction in second language acquisition / , Conclusions and directions / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-43725-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-43109-3

Language: English

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620690

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Format: XV, 252 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0-521-36253-9

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Spracherwerb ; Individualität ; Hilfsverb ; Spracherwerb ; Hilfsverb ; Englisch ; Hilfsverb ; Spracherwerb

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Format: 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 0-511-51983-4

Content: This study examines the variation between children in early language development, focusing on their acquisition of the auxiliary verb. Learning auxiliary verbs and the syntactic and pragmatic functions with which they are associated is an essential component in the child's language development from an early stage. At the same time, children vary extensively in the age and stage at which auxiliaries emerge and also in the style and rate at which subsequent development takes place. Some aspects of this variation have been linked with the quality of interaction with the child's conversation partners, others with a tendency to acquire language holistically through unanalysed 'chunks'. Using data drawn both from the Bristol Longitudinal Study of Language Development and from independent case studies conducted in Wales, Dr Richards points to a number of important areas of variation between children, for example in sequence of syntactic development and in the relationship between pragmatic and syntactic factors, and raises a number of important methodological and theoretical issues, such as how to assess the level of unanalytical usage and how to measure real syntactic advance. By analysing relationships between input and auxiliary growth, the study attempts to resolve some of the inconsistencies in the results of previous studies which have included the auxiliary as a measure. The book will be of value to all those interested in language acquisition, whether linguists, psychologists, speech therapists or lecturers in nursery, infant and special education.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-02341-6

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-36253-9

Language: English

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519833

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Format: 272 p. : , 34 figures, 35.

ISBN: 9780230511804 : , 0230511805 :

Content: 'This book represents a major contribution to the study of both lexical diversity and language development... [and] provides the most comprehensive and compelling study available to date of vocabulary measurement, including type-token ratios, number of different words, and word length. The innovative, empirically validated, and user-friendly measure of lexical diversity (VOCD - or simply D) that it proposes is based on deep understanding of mathematical models combined with rich background in language acquisition and language assessment. The culmination of fifteen years of cooperative research between David Malvern, Brian Richards, and their co-authors at the University of Reading, this study represents the best of inter-disciplinary research. In style, the book is both erudite and readable. It should be an invaluable source of reference for scholars and graduate-level students in general and psycho-linguistics, in first and second language acquisition, language education, and language pathology.' - Ruth A. Berman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University 'David Malvern and his co-authors have developed a new and very promising approach to the study of lexical diversity and language development. Their statistical method is far more sophisticated than anything we have had in the past. This book will be of great interest to the developmental psycholinguistic community.' - Professor Jean Berko Gleason, Department of Psychology, Boston University.

Note: Electronic book text. , Epublication based on: 9781403902313, 2004. , List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements PART I: MEASURING LEXICAL DIVERSITY Introduction Some Approaches to Measuring Lexical Diversity A Mathematical Model of Lexical Diversity PART II: VALIDATION OF THE MODEL THROUGH ITS APPLICATION TO LANGUAGE CORPORA Early Child Language 1: The New England Corpus Early Child Language 2: The Bristol Corpus Lexical Diversity and the Investigation of Accommodation in Foreign Language Proficiency Interviews A New Measure of Inflectional Diversity and its Application to English and Spanish Date Sets PART III: DIFFERENT WORD CATEGORIES AND THEIR DIVERSITY: TYPE-TYPE VERSUS TYPE-TOKEN Comparing the Diversity of Lexical Categories: The Type/Type Ratio and Related Measures Lexical Diversity and Lexical Sophistication in First Language Writing PART IV: CONCLUSION Overview and Conclusions Notes Glossary of Technical Terms and Acronyms Appendices Index. , Document , PDF.

Language: English

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