Referential And Relational Discourse Coherence In Adults And Children

Author : Natalia Gagarina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501509993
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children written by Natalia Gagarina and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines studies on referential as well as relational coherence and includes approaches to written and to spoken language, to production and to comprehension, to language specific and to cross-linguistic issues, to monolingual, bilingual and L2-acquisition. The theoretical issues and empirical findings discussed are of importance not only for theoretical linguistics, but also have a broad potential of practical implication.

Author : Natalia Gagarina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501510150
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children written by Natalia Gagarina and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines studies on referential as well as relational coherence and includes approaches to written and to spoken language, to production and to comprehension, to language specific and to cross-linguistic issues, to monolingual, bilingual and L2-acquisition. The theoretical issues and empirical findings discussed are of importance not only for theoretical linguistics, but also have a broad potential of practical implication.

Author : Sharon Armon-Lotem
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258910
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings written by Sharon Armon-Lotem and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities. A battery of tools for Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) was designed within the Action to achieve these aims, including the Parental Bilingual Questionnaire, the Sentence Repetition Task, the Crosslinguistic Lexical Tasks, the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives, and two nonword repetition tasks that are not language-specific. The chapters in this volume present research on one or more of the LITMUS tasks in bilingual children with typical language development and on use of the LITMUS testing battery for identifying possible language impairment. The work presented here will be of interest for researchers and clinicians alike, and have profound impact in our understanding of bilingual language development and impairment.

Author : Ludovica Serratrice
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267898
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Reference written by Ludovica Serratrice and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major linguistic achievements. The 13 chapters of this volume bring together a wealth of information on the acquisition of referential processes in infants, pre-schoolers and school-age children drawing on data from more than 25 languages ranging from Italian to Inuktitut, and from Norwegian to Turkish. This book presents the state-of-the-art of corpus and experimental research on the acquisition of reference. The breadth of aspects of referential acquisition will make the volume appealing to a wide audience of researchers, including linguists and psycholinguists working on phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse-pragmatic aspects of language development. The cross-linguistic perspective adopted by several of the contributors will be of particular interest to researchers investigating the relevance of typological differences. The state-of-the-art approach makes the research accessible to specialist and non-specialist researchers alike, and will provide an invaluable resource for graduate-level courses.

Author : Marco García García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263485
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond written by Marco García García and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact, this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody, syntax, and pragmatics, the typology of word order and intonation languages, the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality, and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover, the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English, German, and Quechua.

Author : Kurt Braunmüller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027273499
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies written by Kurt Braunmüller and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center “Multilingualism” after twelve years of successful research. It presents a panorama of contemporary research in multilingualism covering three fields of investigation: (1) the simultaneous and successive acquisition of more than one language, including language attrition in multilingual settings, (2) historical aspects of multilingualism and variance, and (3) multilingual communication. The papers cover a vast variety of linguistic phenomena including morphology, syntax, segmental and prosodic phonology as well as discourse production and language use, taking both individual and societal aspects of multilingualism into account. The languages addressed include numerous Romance, Slavic and Germanic varieties as well as Welsh, Hungarian, Turkish, and several South African autochthonous languages.

Author : Sandrine Zufferey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832997
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connectives and Discourse Relations written by Sandrine Zufferey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a cutting-edge yet accessible introduction to connectives and discourse relations, with examples from a range of languages.

Author : Cristina Grisot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319967525
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective written by Cristina Grisot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.

Author : Andrew Kehler
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781575862163
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar written by Andrew Kehler and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural language discourse is more than an arbitrary sequence of utterances; a discourse exhibits coherence. Despite its centrality to discourse interpretation, coherence rarely plays a role in theories of linguistic phenomena that apply across utterances. In this book, Andrew Kehler provides an analysis of coherence relationships between utterances that is rooted in three types of 'connection among ideas' first articulated by the philosopher David Hume - Resemblance, Cause or Effect, and Contiguity. Kehler then shows how these relationships affect the distribution of a variety of linguistic phenomena, including verb phrase ellipsis, gapping, extraction from coordinate structures, tense, and pronominal reference. In each of these areas, Kehler demonstrates how the constraints imposed by linguistic form interact with those imposed by the process of establishing coherence to explain data that has eluded previous analyses. This book will be of interest to researchers from the broad spectrum of disciplines from which discourse is studied, as well as those working in syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and philosophy of language. It is crucial reading for those studying the specific problems addressed in the book, which include discourse coherence, ellipsis, gapping, extraction from coordinate clauses, tense, and pronominal reference.

Author : Sandrine Zufferey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000919382
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics written by Sandrine Zufferey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of various ways in which experiments are used across all domains of linguistics and surveys the range of state-of-the-art methods that can be applied to analyse the language of populations with a wide range of linguistic profiles. Each chapter provides a step-by-step introduction to theoretical and methodological challenges and critically presents a wide range of studies in various domains of experimental linguistics. This handbook: Provides a unified perspective on the data, methods and findings stemming from all experimental research in linguistics Covers many different subfields of linguistics, including argumentation theory, discourse studies and typology Provides an introduction to classical as well as new methods to conduct experiments such as eye tracking and brain imaging Features a range of internationally renowned academics Shows how experimental research can be used to study populations with various linguistic profiles, including young children, people with linguistic impairments, older adults, language learners and bilingual speakers Providing readers with a wealth of theoretical and practical information in order to guide them in designing methodologically sound linguistic experiments, this handbook is essential reading for scholars and students researching in all areas of linguistics.