Overview
- Discusses the challenge of traditional accounts of language acquisition
- Presents new thoughts on the acquisition of linguistic phenomena in (Non)-Indo-European languages
- Includes contributions on how linguistic features are represented in the brain during the acquisition process
Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 49)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Second-Language
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Language Acquisition Under Specific Conditions
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First-Language
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About this book
This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition. The book explores a broad mix of methodologies and issues in contemporary research.
The text presents original research from several different perspectives, and provides a basis for dialogue between researchers working on diverse projects with the aim of furthering our understanding of how languages are acquired. The book proposes and refines new theoretical constructs, e.g. regarding the complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’ and bilingual individuals’ acquisition of morphological, syntactic, discursive, pragmatic, lexical and phonological structures. It appeals to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cristina Suárez-Gómez is a Senior Lecturer of English Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands and was the principal investigator of the project “Morphosyntactic variation in New Englishes”. She is part of the research group ViEW (Variation in English Worldwide) and a contributor to the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2014-53930-P). Holding a Ph.D. in English from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2004), her main areas of research are English historical syntax, English historical sociolinguistics, dialectal variation in English from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes. Her principal publications can be seen at view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/cristinasuarez.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective
Editors: Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Cristina Suárez-Gómez
Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1932-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1931-3Published: 18 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1934-4Published: 18 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1932-0Published: 17 January 2020
Series ISSN: 1873-0043
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 335
Number of Illustrations: 151 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Acquisition and Development, Psycholinguistics, Language Teaching