The usage-based study of language learning and multilingualism / Lourdes Ortega, Andrea Tyler, Hae In Park, & Mariko Uno, editors.
Usage-based linguistics, which is currently very popular, bases its understanding of language on two key points: Languages are cognitive-social constructs (i.e., learned vs genetically endowed), and, in order for communication and meaning to happen, speakers must find a way to meet/understand each o...
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Usage-based development of language across the lifespan. A multimodal approach to the development of negation in signed and spoken languages : four case studies / by Aliyah Morgenstern, Pauline Beaupoil, Marion Blondel, Dominique Boutet, and Fanny Limousin. Why don't you just learn it from the input? : a usage-based corpus study on the
- acquisition of conventionalized indirect speech acts in English and German / by Ursula Kania. Prepositional phrases as manner adverbials in the development of hebrew L1 text production / by Gilad Brandes and Dorit Ravid. Negative constructions in non-literate learners' spoken L2 Finnish / by Taina Tammelin-Laine and Maisa Martin. How do multilinguals conceptualize interactions among languages studied? : operationalizing perceived positive language interaction (PPLI) / by Amy Thompson
- Part II. The corpus-aided, usage-based study of learner language. A friendly conspiracy of input, L1, and processing demands : that-variation in German and Spanish learner language / by Stefanie Wulff. Measuring lexical frequency : comparison groups and subject expression in L2 Spanish / by Bret Linford, Avizia Long, Megan Solon, Melissa Whatley, and Kimberly Geeslin. Article omission : towards establishing how referents are tracked in L2 English / by Monika Ekiert. Measuring L2 explicit knowledge of English verb-particle constructions : frequency and semantic transparency at two proficiency levels / by Helen Zhao and Fenfen Le
- Part III. The experimental study of usage-based processing and learning. Can English-Spanish emerging bilinguals use agreement morphology to overcome word order bias? / by Silvia Marijuan, Sol Lago, and Cristina Sanz. Miniature artificial language learning as a complement to typological data / by Maryia Fedzechkina, Elissa L. Newport, and T. Florian Jaeger
- Part IV. The examination usage-based language in a medical context. Patterns of interaction in doctor-patient communication and their impact on health outcomes / by Diana Slade, Christian M.I.M. Mathiessen, Graham Lock, Jack Pun, and Marvin Lam. Toward a model of multilingual usage / by Michael Achard and Sarah Lee.