Language-Specific Factors in First Language Acquisition : : The Expression of Motion Events in French and German / / Anne-Katharina Harr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Harr, Anne-Katharina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 48
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; 0 Introduction --; Part I: State of the art --; 1 Language and cognition --; 2 Linguistic determinism and “thinking for speaking” --; 3 The relation between language and cognition in different language acquisition theories --; 4 Selected aspects of spatial cognition in children --; 5 Verbalizations of motion events --; 6 General assumptions --; Part II: Experimental study on the expression of motion events in French and German --; 7 Methodology --; 8 Specific hypotheses --; 9 Results: Voluntary Motion --; 10 Results: Caused Motion --; Part III: Discussion --; 11 Discussion of the results and further research directions --; Appendix --; A Methodology --; B Results: Voluntary motion --; C Results: Caused motion --; References --; Subject index --; Author index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614511748; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110288995; 9783110288902; 9783110288896
• ISSN: 1861-4248
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614511748
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anne-Katharina Harr.

A growing number of studies have begun to examine the influence of language-specific factors on language acquisition. During language acquisition, German children from six years on use structures that are similar to those of adults in their language group and also encode all semantic components from an early age. In striking contrast, French children up to ten years have difficulties producing some of the complex structures that are necessary for the simultaneous expression of several semantic components. Nonetheless, in addition to these striking cross-linguistic differences, the results of this study also clearly show similar developmental progressions in other respects, suggesting the impact of general developmental determinants.