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First Steps in Language Acquisition
Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1977Abstract The roots of language acquisition in preverbal cognitive and communicative systems and the early development of comprehension and production of language between 8 and 30 months are described. Individual differences in language learning patterns emerge from the interaction of the child's theory of communicative function, the child's ...
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Fuzzy Models of First Order Languages
Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 1986The concepts of generalized algebra and realization introduced by \textit{H. Rasiowa} and \textit{R. Sikorski} [The mathematics of metamathematics (1963; Zbl 0122.243)] are utilized to propose a general foundation of fuzzy set theory. The fuzzy models of a first order language are treated in a suitable categorial setting.
DI NOLA, Antonio, GERLA, Giangiacomo
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First language and target language in the foreign language classroom
Language Teaching, 2009For many decades, foreign language teaching has been dominated by the principle that teachers should use only the target language (TL) and avoid using the mother tongue (L1) except as a last resort. However, reports show that teachers make extensive use of the L1. This paper illustrates this discrepancy and considers some main reasons for it.
William Littlewood, Baohua Yu
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Building Language Competence in First Language Acquisition
European Review, 2008Most accounts of child language acquisition use as analytic tools adult-like syntactic categories and grammars with little concern for whether they are psychologically real for young children. However, when approached from a cognitive and functional theoretical perspective, recent research has demonstrated that children do not operate initially with ...
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Entrenchment in first language learning.
2017In this chapter, we have considered the evidence for the processes of entrenchment and abstraction in language acquisition with respect to the development of grammatical representations. We could summarize thus: Children first learn high-frequency items or collocations from the input; they then notice similarities between the early-learned items in ...
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Language matters! The long-standing debate between identity-first language and person first language
Assistive Technology, 2022Krista L. Best +3 more
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Language Awareness in First Language Acquisition
2008There is no doubt that the whole area of first language acquisition will continuosly attract researchers` attention and that language development will maintain its status as an important topic not only for both linguists and psychologists, but also for experts such as speec/language pathologists, biologists, and cognitive scientists.
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