Language And Age Changes In Linguistic Behavior The Transition From Childhood To Adolescence

Author : Eva Daub
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638134547
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Age: Changes in linguistic behavior - the transition from childhood to adolescence written by Eva Daub and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2 (B), University of Bonn (Rhein. Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: Language is one of the most powerful emblems of social behavior. In the normal transfer of information through language, we use language to send vital social messages about who we are, where we come from, and who we associate with. Since the 1960s, a number of sociolinguistic studies have been carried out to reveal the significance of the interplay between language variation and language change and the effects of social factors on the language of different speaker groups within a speech community. Regional variation and variation due to social class and gender differences have been much discussed in those studies. To a lesser extent sociolinguists have focused on age, ethnicity and networks as social factors. In the following, I will try to describe such differences and the effects of age on the language of speaker groups, namely children and adolescents. I will deal with the linguistic characteristics of both age groups as a steady and continuous development rather than comparing both stages of life with each other. [...]

Author : Ruth Berman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729500X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence written by Ruth Berman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the study of “later language development”. Incorporating insights from prior language acquisition research, it goes beyond preschool age to consider both isolated utterances and extended discourse, conversational interactions and monologic text construction, and both written and spoken language use from early school-age across adolescence. Data from French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish as well as English cover varied domains: morphology and lexicon, syntax and verb–argument structure, as well as peer interaction, spelling, processing of on-line writing, and reading poetry. The epilogue suggests explanations for the findings documented. Across the book, the authors show how cognitive and social maturation combines with increased literacy in the path taken by schoolchildren and adolescents towards the flexible deployment of a growing repertoire of lexical elements in varied morpho-syntactic constructions and different discourse contexts that constitutes the hallmark of maturely proficient language use.

Author : Marilyn A. Nippold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Later Language Development written by Marilyn A. Nippold and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marilyn A. Nippold
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Later Language Development written by Marilyn A. Nippold and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Elizabeth Kohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780822368298
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Way I Communicate Changes But How I Speak Don't" written by Mary Elizabeth Kohn and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Supplement to American Speech, volume 89."

Author : Susan M. Hoyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195098935
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kids Talk written by Susan M. Hoyle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between early childhood and adulthood, language acquisition is succeeded by a bloom of repertoire for managing interaction, a growing sensitivity to the relation of language and society, an expanding ability to wield power through the strategic use of language, and an increasing sophistication in framing speech activities. This book examines a wide range of language practices among school-age children and teenagers, using data from naturally occurring recorded talk and from careful observation of interaction in peer groups. The contributors analyze talk at play, at school, and at work, documenting the growing communicative skills of young people while always focusing on what young speakers themselves do with (and through) language. Theoretical constructs to which the contributors appeal include Goffman's notion of footing and Hymes' communicative competence, as well as multiple characterizations of discourse structure. The chapters show older children as strategic language users, dynamic actors who are often concerned with defining themselves as a distinctive group, different from adults, yet who just as often display proficiency at sophisticated discourse activities that presage those of adulthood.

Author : Shelia M. Kennison
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483315320
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Language Development written by Shelia M. Kennison and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any language in the world, regardless of the language’s characteristics? Shelia M. Kennison answers this question through a comprehensive introduction to language development, taking a unique perspective that spans the period before birth through old age. The text offers in-depth discussions on key topics, including: the biological basis of language, perceptual development, grammatical development, development of lexical knowledge, social aspects of language, bilingualism, the effect of language on thought, cognitive processing in language production and comprehension, language-related delays and disorders, and language late in life.

Author : Roberta G. Simmons
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 9780202303284
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Into Adolescence written by Roberta G. Simmons and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 1987 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents reach physical adulthood before they are capable of functioning well in adult social roles. The disjunction between physical capabilities and socially allowed independence and power and the concurrent status ambiguities are viewed as stressful for the adolescent in modern Western society. It has been assumed that the need to disengage from parents during these years will result in high levels of rebellion and parent-child conflict. Moving into Adolescence follows students as they make a major life course transition from childhood into early adolescence. Substantial controversy has been generated within the behavioral sciences concerning the difficulty of adolescence as a transitional period. On the one hand, there are those who characterize the period as an exceptionally and necessarily stressful time in the life course. On the other hand, many investigators treat this view of adolescence as their straw man. To them, the supposed tumult of adolescence is just that--supposed and mythical. The purpose of this book is to study the transition from childhood into early and middle adolescence in order to investigate change along a wide variety of psychosocial dimensions with a particular focus on the self-image. The authors investigate the impact of timing of pubertal change and also the movement from an intimate, elementary school context into a large-scale secondary school environment. The first major movement into a large-scale organizational context may cause difficulty for the child, as may the dramatic changes of puberty. In addition, gender differences and changes in gender differences are studied. Both short- and long-term consequences of transition are examined focusing on is the role of pubertal change and school transition.

Author : Kyra KARMILOFF
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039327
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathways to Language written by Kyra KARMILOFF and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague in a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition.

Author : James A. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136988920
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variation in Linguistic Systems written by James A. Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a theoretical and quantitative approach to the study of variation in language, focusing on the role of language-internal constraints on variation and the relation of linguistic variation to linguistic theory. It introduces the basic concepts of variationist linguistics and includes key discussions on language change, language contact, the different types of variation, multivariate analysis with GoldVarb, and variation in sound and grammatical systems. Here is an ideal textbook for an introductory course on variation, as well as a useful resource for scholars with some background in linguistics who are interested in the study of language variation and its relation to the wider field of linguistics.