Research Methods in Language Acquisition : : Principles, Procedures, and Practices / / Barbara Lust, Maria Blume.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Lust, Barbara,; Blume, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Language and the Human Lifespan (LHLS) ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 313 p.)

Language acquisition research is challenging-the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. The audible components of speech, however, are quantifiable and thus provide crucial data. This practical guide synthesizes the authors’ decades of experien...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. Fundamentals of Language Acquisition Research
• 1. The Challenge of Studying Language
• 2. Preparing to Work With Children, Schools, and Families
• 3. Creating the Data I: Working in Teams, Basic Data Collection, Data Sharing, and Data Management
• II. Experimental and Observational Methods in Language Acquisition Research
• 4. Studying Language Acquisition Through Collecting Speech
• 5. Introduction to Experimental Methods: Design and Analysis
• 6. Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Production Data
• 7. Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Comprehension Data
• 8. The Grammaticality Judgment Task
• III. Managing and Interpreting Speech Data
• 9. Creating the Data II: Begin Data Processing
• 10. Creating the Data III: Preparing for Data Analysis
• 11. Interpreting the Data: Scientific Inference
• IV. Special Considerations in Language Acquisition Research
• 12. Assessing Multilingual Acquisition
• 13. Introduction to Infant Testing Methods in Language Acquisition Research
• 14. Conclusions and Proceeding to the Future
• Appendix A: Transcription Symbols
• Appendix B: The International Phonetic Alphabet
• Appendix C: Outline for Preparation of Schematic Research Proposal
• Suggested Readings
• References
• Index
• About the Authors