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The Grammar of Multilingualism

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889450120
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (894 download)

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Book Synopsis The Grammar of Multilingualism by : Artemis Alexiadou

Download or read book The Grammar of Multilingualism written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the nature of grammatical representations in speakers who master multiple languages. Since the early days of modern formal approaches to grammar, most work has been based on the language of monolingual humans. Less work has been conducted based on data from speakers who possess more than one language. Although important insights have been gained from a monolingual focus, there is every reason to believe that bi- and multilingual data can inform linguistic theory. A lot of ongoing work demonstrates that this is indeed the case, and the current volume contributes to this growing literature. Thus, the research topic addresses a number of questions relating to grammatical structures in multilingual speakers as well as the methodological issues that arise in the context of studying such speakers. A better understanding of the grammatical sides of multilingualism is crucial for understanding the human language capacity and in turn for offering better advice to the public concerning issues of language choice for multilingual children and adults, education, and language deficits in multilingual individuals.

Multilingualism and third language acquisition

Author : Jorge Pinto
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102961
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Multilingualism and third language acquisition by : Jorge Pinto

Download or read book Multilingualism and third language acquisition written by Jorge Pinto and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present recent studies in the field of multilingualism and L3, bringing together contributions from an international group of specialists from Austria, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United States. The main focuses of the articles are three: language acquisition, language learning and teaching. A collection of theoretical and empirical articles from scholars of multilingualism and language acquisition makes the book a significant resource as the papers present a wide perspective from main theories to current issues, reflecting new trends in the field. The authors focus on the heterogeneity and complexity that characterize third language acquisition, multilingual learning and teaching. As the issues addressed in this book intersect, it represents an asset and therefore the texts will be of great relevance for the scientific community. Part I presents different topics of L3 acquisition, such as syntax, phonology, working memory and selective attention, and lexicon. Part II comprises texts that show how the research on language acquisition informs pedagogical issues. For instance, the role of the knowledge of previous languages in the teaching of L3, the attitudes of multilingual teachers to plurilingual approaches, and the benefits of crosslinguistic pedagogy versus classroom monolingual bias. In sequence, Part III consists of texts on individual learning strategies, such as motivation and attitudes, crosslinguistic awareness, and students’ perceptions about teachers’ “plurilingual nonnativism”. All these chapters include several different languages in contact in an acquisition/learning context: Basque, English, French, German, Italian, Ladin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Third language acquisition

Author : Camilla Bardel
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102805
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Third language acquisition by : Camilla Bardel

Download or read book Third language acquisition written by Camilla Bardel and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their multilingual background plays in the process of language learning. The volume points out some current directions in this particular research area with a number of studies that reveal the complexity of multilingual language learning and its typical variation and dynamics. The eight studies gathered in the book represent a wide range of theoretical positions and offer empirical evidence from learners belonging to different age groups, and with varying levels of proficiency in the target language, as well as in other non-native languages belonging to the learner’s repertoire. Diverse linguistic phenomena and language combinations are viewed from a perspective where all previously acquired languages have a potential role to play in the process of learning a new language. In the six empirical studies, contexts of language learning in school or at university level constitute the main outlet for data collection. These studies involve several language backgrounds and language combinations and focus on various linguistic features. The specific target languages in the empirical studies are English, French and Italian. The volume also includes two theoretical chapters. The first one conceptualizes and describes the different types of multilingual language learning investigated in the volume: i) third or additional language learning by learners who are bilinguals from an early age, and ii) third or additional language learning by people who have previous experience of one or more non-native languages learned after the critical period. In particular, issues related to the roles played by age and proficiency in multilingual acquisition are discussed. The other theoretical chapter conceptualizes the grammatical category of aspect, reviewing previous studies on second and third language acquisition of aspect. Different models for L3 learning and their relevance and implications for representations of aspect and for potential differences in the processing of second and third language acquisition are also examined in this chapter. As a whole, the book presents current research into third or additional language learning by young learners or adults, considering some of the most important factors for the complex process of multilingual language learning: the age of onset of the additional language and that of previously acquired languages, social and affective factors, instruction, language proficiency and literacy, the typology of the background languages and the role they play in shaping syntax, lexicon, and other components of a L3. The idea for this book emanates from the symposium Multilingualism, language proficiency and age, organized by Camilla Bardel and Laura Sánchez at Stockholm University, Department of Language Education, in December 2016.

Grammatical Framework

Author : Aarne Ranta
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575866260
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (662 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammatical Framework by : Aarne Ranta

Download or read book Grammatical Framework written by Aarne Ranta and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 2011 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This thorough introduction demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them in applications such as tourist phrasebooks, spoken dialogue systems, and natural language interfaces. The examples and exercises presented here address several languages, and the readers are shown how to look at their own languages from the computational perspective.

Multilingual Multimedia

Author : Masoud Yazdani
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Multilingual Multimedia by : Masoud Yazdani

Download or read book Multilingual Multimedia written by Masoud Yazdani and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters that provide a survey of approaches to developing multimedia software and relevant multilingual issues; design considerations for a visual language and how it might be developed for maximum ease of use.

(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism

Author : Natascha Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027219213
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism by : Natascha Müller

Download or read book (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism written by Natascha Müller and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are compared, the existence of multiple grammars in L1 acquisition, simultaneous L2 acquisition (balanced and unbalanced bilingualism) and successive L2 acquisition (child and adult L2 acquisition). Evidence from the language pairs French-German, Italian-Swedish, Spanish-English, Spanish-German, Spanish-Basque, Portuguese-Japanese-English, Portuguese-German, English-German, Turkish-German is brought to bear on grammatical issues pertaining to the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase, pronoun use and the null-subject property, clause structure, verb position, non-finite clauses, agreement at the clause level, and on issues like code mixing and language dominance.

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

Author : Yan-kit Ingrid Leung
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847691315
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar by : Yan-kit Ingrid Leung

Download or read book Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar written by Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. It aims to bring together researchers who are interested in L3 acquisition and who are at the same time working within the generative framework i.e. Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) approach to language acquisition. A total of nine contributions are included, reporting research on L3 involving different combinations of source/target languages and investigating various UG-related properties.

Multifaceted Multilingualism

Author : Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902724703X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Multifaceted Multilingualism by : Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Download or read book Multifaceted Multilingualism written by Kleanthes K. Grohmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core themes: The Early Years (aspects of language acquisition and development, including vernaculars or minority languages, reading, writing, and cognition, and multilingual extensions), Issues in Everyday Life (the role of multilingualism in and for speech–language–communication difficulties, including diagnosis, provisions of services, and later language breakdown), and From the Past to the Future (aspects of multilingualism beyond acquisition, education, or pathology, with a focus on heritage languages and translanguaging). Specialists from each of these areas introduce state-of-the-art research, novel experimental studies, and/or quantitative as well as qualitative data bearing on ‘multifaceted multilingualism’. There is a broad spectrum for take-home messages, ranging from new theoretical analyses or approaches to assess multilingual speakers all the way to recommendations for policy-makers.

The Development of Grammar

Author : Esther Rinke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027219311
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Development of Grammar by : Esther Rinke

Download or read book The Development of Grammar written by Esther Rinke and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition as well as the relation between language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change. The recurrent topic of the volume is the link between linguistic variation and the limitation of structural variability in the framework of a well-defined theory of language. In this respect, the volume opens up new perspectives for future research.

The Many Faces of Multilingualism

Author : Piotr Romanowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514695
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis The Many Faces of Multilingualism by : Piotr Romanowski

Download or read book The Many Faces of Multilingualism written by Piotr Romanowski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multilingualism has become an increasingly common global phenomenon especially in the last two decades. Therefore, multilingual programmes have now been regarded as a cornerstone of education systems in many countries around the world. Learning multiple languages helps us plug into a globalised world and strengthen links with a multitude of speakers from a diversified reality we live in. Thanks to the researched cases described in the chapters, further developments aimed at fostering multilingual practices in the contemporary world will be enhanced. The chapters included in the present volume, provide an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field. They deal with such prominent research topics as multilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of multilingual speakers, to name only a few. The selected chapters focus on the numerous and heterogeneous relations between languages. They also incorporate a series of contextualized studies with diverse research designs applied in different settings across the globe. This volume constitutes a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on multilingualism from twelve different countries. It is a thought-provoking collection that provides a series of rich insights into the way multilingualism is practised in international contexts. It is ideally designed for academics, upper-level students, educators, professionals and practitioners seeking linguistic and pedagogical guidance on multilingualism.

A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism

Author : Philip Herdina
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853594670
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism by : Philip Herdina

Download or read book A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism written by Philip Herdina and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The model presented in this volume draws together various strands of research - second language acquisition theory, bilingualism research, dynamic systems theory - to develop a novel approach to this challenging subject. Its main focus lies on the psycholinguistic dynamics of multilingualism, the processes of change in time affecting two or more language systems.

Multilingualism

Author : John C. Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198724993
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Multilingualism by : John C. Maher

Download or read book Multilingualism written by John C. Maher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Maher explains why societies everywhere have become more multilingual, despite the disappearance of hundreds of the world languages. He considers our notion of language as national or cultural identities, and discusses why nations cluster and survive around particular languages even as some territories pursue autonomy or nationhood.

The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Author : Tej K. Bhatia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118332415
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism by : Tej K. Bhatia

Download or read book The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism written by Tej K. Bhatia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism. Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language learning Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned researchers from different disciplines Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce

The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism

Author : Lourdes Ortega
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626163251
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism by : Lourdes Ortega

Download or read book The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism written by Lourdes Ortega and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual language acquisition, works. Each chapter presents an original study that supports the view that language learning is initiated through local and meaningful communication with others. Over an accumulated history of such usage, people gradually create more abstract, interactive schematic representations, or a mental grammar. This process of acquiring language is the same for infants and adults and across varied contexts, such as the family, the classroom, the laboratory, a hospital, or a public encounter. Employing diverse methodologies to study this process, the contributors here work with target languages, including Cantonese, English, French, French Sign Language, German, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Spanish, and Swedish, and offer a much-needed exploration of this growing area of linguistic research.

Bilingual First Language Acquisition

Author : Jürgen M. Meisel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027284970
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Bilingual First Language Acquisition by : Jürgen M. Meisel

Download or read book Bilingual First Language Acquisition written by Jürgen M. Meisel and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-09-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific grammatical phenomena; explanations are given within the framework of the Principle and Parameter approach. The study is primarily concerned with the acquisition of so-called 'functional categories' and the consequences of their acquisition for the development of grammar. Specific points dealt with in these papers include: gender, number and case and their internal structure (DP vs NP); inflection and its consequences for agreement marking; and word order phenomena (subject-raising constructions (incl. passives), word order in subordinate clauses). The basic hypothesis underlying this study is that early child grammars consist only of lexical categories and that functional categories are implemented later in the child's grammar. How this happens exactly is the central issue explored in this book.

Contested Languages

Author : Marco Tamburelli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260389
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Contested Languages written by Marco Tamburelli and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by traditional dialectology. This volume investigates the nature of contested languages, the role language ideologies play in the perception of these languages, the contribution of academic discourse to the formation and perpetuation of language contestedness, and the damage contestedness causes to linguistic communities and ultimately to linguistic diversity. Various situations and degrees of language contestedness are presented and analysed, along with theoretical considerations, exploring potential roads to recognition and issues in language planning that arise from language contestedness. Addressing the “language vs dialect” question head on, the volume opens up new perspectives that are relevant to all students and researchers interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity.

Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts

Author : Nicola McLelland
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 180041157X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts by : Nicola McLelland

Download or read book Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts written by Nicola McLelland and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important contribution to the sociolinguistics of Asian languages breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization in two key ways: in its focus on Asia, with particular attention paid to China and its neighbours, and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters address various kinds of (sometimes hidden) multilingualism and examine the interactions between multilingualism and language standardization, offering a corrective to earlier work on standardization, which has tended to assume a monolingual nation state and monolingual individuals. Taken together, the chapters in this book thus add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism. The introduction, Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 are free to download as open access publications. You can access them here: Introduction: https://zenodo.org/record/5749388#.YaiwuNDP3cs Chapter 6: https://zenodo.org/record/5749522#.Yaiw-9DP3cs Chapter 8: https://zenodo.org/record/5749586#.Yai0RNDP3cs