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For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development. These core findings are related to recent work in psychology and linguistics--and especially to studies of the acquisition of languages other than English, including Finnish, German, Korean, and Samoan. Roger Brown has written the most exhaustive and searching analysis yet undertaken of the early stages of grammatical constructions and the meanings they convey. The five stages of linguistic development Brown establishes are measured not by chronological age-since children vary greatly in the speed at which their speech develops--but by mean length of utterance. This volume treats the first two stages. Stage I is the threshold of syntax, when children begin to combine words to make sentences. These sentences, Brown shows, are always limited to the same small set of semantic relations: nomination, recurrence, disappearance, attribution, possession, agency, and a few others. Stage II is concerned with the modulations of basic structural meanings--modulations for number, time, aspect, specificity--through the gradual acquisition of grammatical morphemes such as inflections, prepositions, articles, and case markers. Fourteen morphemes are studied in depth and it is shown that the order of their acquisition is almost identical across children and is predicted by their relative semantic and grammatical complexity. It is, ultimately, the intent of this work to focus on the nature and development of knowledge: knowledge concerning grammar and the meanings coded by grammar; knowledge inferred from performance, from sentences and the settings in which they are spoken, and from signs of comprehension or incomprehension of sentences.

Grammatica. --- Kindertaal. --- Language Development. --- Language acquisition. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Sprache, Linguistik. --- Spracherwerb. --- Taalontwikkeling. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Language Development. --- Linguistics -- Language acquisition. --- PSYCHOLOGY / General.

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Lo sviluppo cognitivo, linguistico e motorio sono stati a lungo considerati e studiati come entità separate. Dagli anni Ottanta in poi diversi studi e ricerche in ambito neuropsicologico hanno invece cominciato a evidenziare e confermare una stretta correlazione tra aspetti linguistici, motorio-prassici e competenze relative alla sfera delle funzioni esecutive. Secondo le più recenti teorie le capacità linguistiche e cognitive emergono parallelamente allo sviluppo psicomotorio, e in particolare in rapporto alle abilità gestuali e alle capacità di produrre azioni intenzionali. Questo volume, frutto di molti anni di esperienza nell’ambito della clinica e soprattutto della terapia dei disturbi specifici del linguaggio (DSL) e dell’apprendimento, propone un approfondimento delle tipologie di DSL in cui sono presenti deficit motori e prassici e prende in considerazione il concetto di disprassia. Vengono inoltre analizzati alcuni aspetti dello sviluppo motorio tipico e l’importanza della prensione e della deambulazione, quali momenti fondamentali dello sviluppo, oltre allo sviluppo dell’ocumolozione e a quello delle funzioni esecutive.

Medicine. --- Linguistics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Linguistics, general. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health Workforce --- Language and languages

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Looking for an easy-to-use, practical guide to conducting fieldwork in sociolinguistics? This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in 'the field', including: • How to select and enter a community • How to design a research sample • What recording equipment to choose and how to operate it • How to collect, store and manage data • How to interact effectively with participants and communities • What ethical issues you should be aware of. Carefully designed to be of maximum practical use to students and researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and related fields, the book is packed with useful features, including: • Helpful checklists for recording techniques and equipment specifications • Practical examples taken from classic sociolinguistic studies • Vivid passages in which students recount their own experiences of doing fieldwork in many different parts of the world

Sociolinguistics --- Sociolinguistique --- Enquêtes linguistiques --- Méthodologie --- Fieldwork. --- Methodology. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics --- General. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Fieldwork --- Methodology --- Recherche sur le terrain --- Language arts & disciplines --- Méthodologie --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Méthodologie. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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This volume provides insight into linguistic pragmatics from the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy. Theory of Mind and perspectives on point of view are presented along with other topics including: semantics vs. semiotics,  clinical pragmatics, explicatures, cancellability of explicatures, interactive language use,  reference, common ground, presupposition, definiteness, logophoricity and point of view in connection with pragmatic inference, pragmemes and language games, pragmatics and artificial languages, the mechanism of the form/content correlation from a pragmatic point of view,  amongst other issues relating to language use. Relevance Theory is introduced as an important framework, allowing readers to familiarize themselves with technical details and linguistic terminology. This book follows on from the first volume: both contain the work of world renowned experts who discuss theories relevant to pragmatics. Here, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics is explored: conversational explicatures are a way to bridge the gap in semantics between underdetermined logical forms and full propositional content.  These volumes are written in an accessible way and work well both as a stimulus to further research and as a guide to less experienced researchers and students who would like to know more about this vast, complex, and difficult field of inquiry.

Language and languages. --- Linguistics. --- Pragmatics. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Pragmalinguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Philosophy. --- Language and languages --- Philosophy of Language. --- Theoretical Linguistics. --- Linguistics, general. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Linguistics --- Language and languages—Philosophy.

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How do learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense?Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best students aced the test, did the pretty good students beece it? You've probably often pondered such questions yourself, but did you know that similar questions have inspired some of the most important advances in our understanding not only of how languages change but also of how children acquire grammar and how the human mind works?This book is designed to help readers make sense of morphological change and, more generally, of the concept of analogy and its role in language and in human cognition. With a critical look at the past 150 years of linguistic work on analogical change, David Fertig brings clarity to a field rife with terminological and theoretical confusion.Key featuresExplains traditional and modern approaches to analogical changeIllustrates the relevance of analogy to current linguistic and psycholinguistic theoryExplores the many ways that covert reanalysis can reshape grammatical systems

Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / General --- Analogy (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language acquisition --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Morphology (Linguistics) --- Morphology --- Acquisition --- Linguistic analogy --- Linguistics --- Analogy --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology