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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractThis article reviews current approaches to first language acquisition, arguing in favor of the theory that attributes to the child an innate knowledge of universal grammar. Such knowledge can accommodate the systematic nature of children's non‐adult linguistic behaviors.
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AbstractThis article reviews current approaches to first language acquisition, arguing in favor of the theory that attributes to the child an innate knowledge of universal grammar. Such knowledge can accommodate the systematic nature of children's non‐adult linguistic behaviors.
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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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On the First and Second Language Acquisition of Spatial Language
Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2012This paper provides a brief overview of some of the main issues concerning the acquisition of spatial language as a first or second language. We first consider spatial language variation and the challenges cross-linguistic language differences present for language learners.
Kenny R. Coventry +2 more
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Acquisition of speech rhythm in first language
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015Analysis of English rhythm in speech produced by children and adults revealed that speech rhythm becomes increasingly more stress-timed as language acquisition progresses. Children reach the adult-like target by 11 to 12 years. The employed speech elicitation paradigm ensured that the sentences produced by adults and children at different ages were ...
Polyanskaya, Leona, Ordin, Mikhail
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Sources of variation in first language acquisition
2018Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of variation: language-specific properties, the nature of ...
Hickmann, Maya +2 more
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There is a dummy ‘is’ in early first language acquisition
2013Item does not contain ...
Julien, M.M.R. +2 more
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Information Structure in First Language Acquisition
2014AbstractSo far, research on the acquisition of information structure (IS) is still relatively sparse compared to other areas of first language acquisition research. A growing interest in this area has emerged with an increasing number of results indicating an asymmetry of an early production but late comprehension of linguistic means related to IS ...
Höhle, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) +2 more
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2009
Now in its fourth edition, this textbook provides a chronological account of first language acquisition, showing how young children acquire language in their conversational interactions with adult speakers. It draws on diary records and experimental studies from leaders in the field to document different stages and different aspects of what children ...
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Now in its fourth edition, this textbook provides a chronological account of first language acquisition, showing how young children acquire language in their conversational interactions with adult speakers. It draws on diary records and experimental studies from leaders in the field to document different stages and different aspects of what children ...
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[First language acquisition research and theories of language acquisition].
HNO, 2015In principle, a child can seemingly easily acquire any given language. First language acquisition follows a certain pattern which to some extent is found to be language independent. Since time immemorial, it has been of interest why children are able to acquire language so easily.
S, Miller, M, Jungheim, M, Ptok
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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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