Developing Grammars by Willemijn M Klein
This study deals with variation in grammar both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. In Part I (Chaps. 1-4), an attempt is made to char- acterize this phenomenon within the broader context of what might be called the fluctuating character of natu'ral language, and to develop suitable and precise descriptive techniques that account for it. The method which is pro- posed here is called variety grammar - roughly speaking, this is a formal grammar with probabilistic weighting for an ordered set of varieties, such as dialects, sociolects, registers, or developmental stages. In Part I (Chaps. 5-8), this technique is applied to an important area of grammatical variation - to the process of second language acquisition in social context, based on a large investigation of the language behavior of foreign migrant workers acquiring German through everyday contacts. We have tried to characterize their developing grammars and to relate this complex developmental process to social and individual factors that determine it.-
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Dynamic Aspects of Language Processing
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Speech Act Classification
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The Acquisition of Gender
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Modelling Language Behaviour
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From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children
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Epistemic Meaning
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The Written World
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Prosody: Models and Measurements
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Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence
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Dimensional Adjectives
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Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning
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The Development of Metalinguistic Abilities in Children
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Cognition and Sentence Production
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Metalinguistic Awareness in Children
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Phonological Awareness in Reading
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Semantics from Different Points of View
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Young Children’s Knowledge of Relational Terms
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The Child’s Conception of Language
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Language in Primates
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Inferring from Language
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Cognition, Metacognition, and Reading
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Retrieval from Semantic Memory
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The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning
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Lectures on Language Performance
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Language Awareness and Learning to Read
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| ISBN 13 | 9783642673870 |
| ISBN 10 | 3642673872 |
| Title | Developing Grammars |
| Author | Willemijn M Klein |
| Series | Springer Series In Language And Communication |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2011-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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