Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language

Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin
Herausgeber: Guo, Jiansheng; Ozcaliskan, Seyda; Nakamura, Keiko; Ervin-Tripp, Susan; Budwig, Nancy; Lieven, Elena

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Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by the pioneering work of Dan Slobin, this volume discusses language learning from a crosslinguistic perspective, integrates language specific factors in narrative skill, covers the major theoretical issues, and explores the relationship between language and cognition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 183mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780805859980
• ISBN-10: 0805859985
• Artikelnr.: 23370427

Autorenporträt

Guo, Jiansheng; Lieven, Elena; Budwig, Nancy; Ervin-Tripp, Susan; Nakamura, Keiko; Ozcaliskan, Seyda

Inhaltsangabe

J. Guo
E. Lieven
Introduction. Section 1. Language Learning in Crosslinguistic Perspective. N. Budwig
S. Ervin-Tripp
Introduction. J.B. Gleason
B. Phillips
R. Ely
E. Zaretsky
Alligators All Around: The Acquisition of Animal Terms in English and Russian. S. Goldin-Meadow
A. Özyürek
B. Sancar
C. Mylander
Making Language Around the Globe: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Homesign in the United States
China
and Turkey. A. Kyratzis
"He take one my tools!" vs. "I'm building": Transitivity and the Grammar of Accusing
Commanding
and Perspective-Sharing in Toddler's Peer Disputes. H. Behrens
Direction and Perspective in German Child Language. R.M. Weist
One-to-One Mapping of Temporal and Spatial Relations. A.C. Küntay
D. Koçbas
Effects of Lexical Items and Construction Types in English and Turkish Character Introductions in Elicited Narrative. K. Demuth
D. Ellis
Revisiting the Acquisition of Sesotho Noun Class Prefixes. P.M. Clancy
Dialogic Priming and the Acquisition of Argument Marking in Korean. Section 2. Narratives and Their Development: Linguistic
Cognitive
and Pragmatic Perspectives. R.A. Berman
Introduction. M. Bamberg
Sequencing Events in Time or Sequencing Events in Storytelling? From Cognition to Discourse-With Frogs Paving the Way. E.L. Bavin
Plot and Evaluation: Warlpiri Children's Frog Stories. R.A. Berman
B. Nir-Sagiv
Clause Packaging in Narratives: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study. R. Berthele
The Many Ways to Search for a Frog Story: On Fieldworker's Troubles Collecting Spatial Language Data. L. de León
Between Frogs and Black Winged-Monkeys: Orality
Evidentials
and Authorship in Tzotzil (Mayan) Children's Narratives. J. Guo
L. Chen
Learning to Express Motion in Narratives by Mandarin-Speaking Children. M. Hickmann
H. Hendriks
C. Champaud
Typological Constraints on Motion in French and English Child Language. K. Nakamura
Language and Affect: Japanese Children's Use of Evaluative Expressions in Narratives. A. Nicolopoulou
Rethinking Character Representation and Its Development in Children's Narratives. K. Oh
Motion Events in English and Korean Fictional Writings and Translations. S. Özçaliskan
Learning to Talk about Spatial Motion in Language-Specific Ways. E. Veneziano
L. Albert
S. Martin
Learning to Tell a Story of False Belief: A Study of French-Speaking Children. Section 3. Theoretical Perspectives on Language Development
Language Change and Typology. E. Lieven
Introduction. T. Givón
S. Savage Rumbaugh
Can Apes Learn Grammar? A Short Detour into Language Evolution. R.D. Van Valin
Jr.
Some Remarks on Universal Grammar. T.G. Bever
The Canonical Form Constraint: Language Acquisition via a General Theory of Learning. W. Klein
Finiteness
Universal Grammar and the Language Faculty. J. Bybee
Grammaticization: Implications for a Theory of Language. E. Sweetser
What Does It Mean to Compare Language and Gesture? Modalities and Contrasts. M. Rispoli
On Paradigms
Principles and Predictions. L. Menn
Child Language
Aphasia
and General Psycholinguistics. L. Talmy
Main Verb Properties and Equipollent Framing. I.I. Antuñano
Path Salience in Motion Events. A. Kopecka
Continuity and Change in the Representation of Motion Events in French. W. Sampaio
C. Sinha
V. da Silva Sinha
Mixing and Mapping: Motion
Path and Manner in Amondawa. Section 4. Language and Cognition: Universals and Typological Comparisons. M. Bowerman
Introduction. P. Brown
S.C. Levinson
Language as Mind Tools: Learning How to Think Through Speaking. D. Gentner
M. Bowerman
Why Some Spatial Semantic Categories Are Harder to Learn than Others: The Typological Prevalence Hypothesis. L. Verhoeven
A. Vermeer
Cognitive Predictors of Children's First and Second Language Proficiency. S. Pourcel
Relativistic Application of Thinking for Speaking. S. Strömqvist
K. Holmqvist
R. Andersson
Thinking for Speaking and Channeling of Attention-A Case for Eye-Tracking Research. D. McNeill
Imagery for Speaking. A. Aksu-Koç
Evidentials: An Interface between Linguistic and Conceptual Development. S. Stoll
B. Bickel
How Deep Are Differences in Referential Density? Appendix A. D.I. Slobin
Dan Slobin's Mentors
Models
Influences and Connections: A Self-Portrait (PowerPoint Slides Presented by Dan Slobin at the Special Symposium in His Honor at the 10th International Congress for the Study of Child Language
Berlin
July 2005). Appendix B. Bibliography of Publications by Dan Isaac Slobin.