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

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (389 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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