Harr Language-Specific Factors in First Language Acquisition

The Expression of Motion Events in French and German
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61451-174-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 48, 402 Seiten

Reihe: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]ISSN

Zielgruppe

Linguists, Psycholinguists, Cognitive and Developmental Psychologists, and those who are concerned with the study of first language acquisition

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harr, Anne-Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;7
2;0 Introduction;15
2.1;0.1 Why space?;15
2.2;0.2 Space across languages;16
2.3;0.3 A developmental perspective;17
2.4;0.4 The organization of the book;18
3;Part I: State of the art;21
3.1;1 Language and cognition;23
3.1.1;1.1 Convergences of the notions language and cognition;23
3.1.1.1;1.1.1 Language;23
3.1.1.2;1.1.2 Cognition;29
3.1.2;1.2 The relation between language and thought;34
3.1.2.1;1.2.1 Language is thought;35
3.1.2.2;1.2.2 Language and thought do not influence each other;36
3.1.2.3;1.2.3 Thought influences language;38
3.1.2.4;1.2.4 Language influences thought;40
3.1.2.5;1.2.5 Conclusion;42
3.2;2 Linguistic determinism and “thinking for speaking”;44
3.2.1;2.1 Linguistic determinism;45
3.2.2;2.2 “Thinking for speaking”;50
3.2.3;2.3 Implications for language acquisition;53
3.2.4;2.4 Are we on the wrong track?;56
3.2.5;2.5 Conclusion;58
3.3;3 The relation between language and cognition in different language acquisition theories;60
3.3.1;3.1 Nativism;60
3.3.1.1;3.1.1 Basic assumptions of nativism about first language acquisition;61
3.3.1.2;3.1.2 Criticism and further development of the nativist position;64
3.3.2;3.2 Cognitivism;68
3.3.2.1;3.2.1 Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and his assumptions about first language acquisition;68
3.3.2.2;3.2.2 Criticism and further developments of Piaget’s theory;72
3.3.3;3.3 Constructivism;76
3.3.3.1;3.3.1 Construction Grammar and usage-based approaches to first language acquisition;76
3.3.3.2;3.3.2 Criticism of constructivist and usage-based research;81
3.3.4;3.4 Conclusion;84
3.4;4 Selected aspects of spatial cognition in children;87
3.4.1;4.1 The emergence of spatial cognition;87
3.4.2;4.2 Spatial relations;89
3.4.3;4.3 Motion;92
3.4.4;4.4 Causality;94
3.4.5;4.5 Summary;96
3.5;5 Verbalizations of motion events;98
3.5.1;5.1 A typological approach to the expression of motion events: Talmy’s framework;99
3.5.2;5.2 Variability in the expression of motion events and its cognitive implications: Slobin’s assumptions;112
3.5.3;5.3 Motion events in child language;119
3.5.3.1;5.3.1 Semantic components;120
3.5.3.2;5.3.2 Syntactic complexity;127
3.5.3.3;5.3.3 Co-verbal gestures.;129
3.5.4;5.4 Motion events in German;130
3.5.5;5.5 Motion events in French;139
3.6;6 General assumptions;146
4;Part II : Experimental study on the expression of motion events in French and German;149
4.1;7 Methodology;151
4.1.1;7.1 Participants;151
4.1.2;7.2 Material;152
4.1.2.1;7.2.1 Voluntary Motion;152
4.1.2.2;7.2.2 Caused Motion;153
4.1.3;7.3 Procedure;155
4.1.4;7.4 Transcription;156
4.1.5;7.5 Coding System;156
4.1.5.1;7.5.1 General coding principles;156
4.1.5.2;7.5.2 Basic coding lines;157
4.1.5.3;7.5.3 Synthetic coding lines;164
4.2;8 Specific hypotheses;166
4.2.1;8.1 Density and Information Focus;166
4.2.2;8.2 Information Locus;167
4.2.3;8.3 Global Architecture;168
4.2.4;8.4 Qualitative analyses;168
4.3;9 Results: Voluntary Motion;170
4.3.1;9.1 Density;170
4.3.1.1;9.1.1 Density as a function of target items;172
4.3.1.2;9.1.2 Density in control items;173
4.3.2;9.2 Information Focus;174
4.3.2.1;9.2.1 Information Focus in target items;176
4.3.2.1.1;9.2.1.1 Up-events;177
4.3.2.1.2;9.2.1.2 Down-events;179
4.3.2.1.3;9.2.1.3 Across-events;182
4.3.2.2;9.2.2 Information Focus in control items;184
4.3.3;9.3 Information Locus;189
4.3.3.1;9.3.1 Information Locus in target items;192
4.3.3.1.1;9.3.1.1 Up-events;192
4.3.3.1.2;9.3.1.2 Down-events;196
4.3.3.1.3;9.3.1.3 Across-events;200
4.3.3.2;9.3.2 Information Locus in control items;205
4.3.4;9.4 Global Architecture;209
4.3.4.1;9.4.1 Global Architecture in target items;212
4.3.4.1.1;9.4.1.1 Up-events;212
4.3.4.1.2;9.4.1.2 Down-events;215
4.3.4.1.3;9.4.1.3 Across-events;219
4.3.4.2;9.4.2 Global Architecture in control items;223
4.3.5;9.5 Qualitative Analyses;227
4.3.5.1;9.5.1 Verbs;227
4.3.5.2;9.5.2 Satellites;240
4.3.5.3;9.5.3 Periphery;245
4.4;10 Results: Caused Motion;250
4.4.1;10.1 Density;250
4.4.1.1;10.1.1 Density as a function of language and age;253
4.4.1.2;10.1.2 Density as a function of Manner of action;254
4.4.1.3;10.1.3 Density as a function of Path;255
4.4.2;10.2 Information Focus;258
4.4.2.1;10.2.1 Information Focus as a function of language and age;260
4.4.2.2;10.2.2 Information Focus as a function of Manner of action;268
4.4.2.3;10.2.3 Information Focus as a function of Manner of the object’s motion;270
4.4.2.4;10.2.4 Information Focus as a function of Path;272
4.5;10.3 Information Locus;279
4.5.1;10.3.1 Information Locus as a function of language and age;284
4.5.2;10.3.2 Information Locus as a function of Path;288
4.6;10.4 Global Architecture;294
4.6.1;10.4.1 Global Architecture as a function of language and age;296
4.6.2;10.4.2 Global Architecture as a function of Path;299
4.7;10.5 Qualitative Analyses;302
4.7.1;10.5.1 Verbs;302
4.7.2;10.5.2 Satellites;316
4.7.3;10.5.3 Periphery;323
5;Part III: Discussion;329
5.1;11 Discussion of the results and further research directions;331
5.1.1;11.1 The expression of motion events in French and German;331
5.1.2;11.2 General developmental versus language-specific determinants in children’s verbalizations of motion events;335
5.1.3;11.3 Limitations of the present study and future research directions;341
6;Appendix;347
6.1;A Methodology;349
6.1.1;A.1 Material;349
6.1.1.1;A.1.1 Items: Voluntary motion;349
6.1.1.2;A.1.2 Items: Caused motion;352
6.1.2;A.2 Instruction;356
6.1.2.1;A.2.1 German;356
6.1.2.2;A.2.2 French;356
6.2;B Results: Voluntary motion;358
6.2.1;B.1 Information Locus;358
6.2.2;B.2 Global Architecture;358
6.2.3;B.3 Verb forms in French;359
6.2.4;B.4 Verb forms in German;363
6.2.5;B.5 French constructions with faire + X;366
6.3;C Results: Caused motion;369
6.3.1;C.1 French verb types;369
6.3.2;C.2 German verb types;371
7;References;373
8;Subject index;397
9;Author index;399

Über Autor(innen)

Anne-Katharina Harr, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.