The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism by Maisa Martin
When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual language acquisition, works. Each chapter presents an original study that supports the view that language learning is initiated through local and meaningful communication with others. Over an accumulated history of such usage, people gradually create more abstract, interactive schematic representations, or a mental grammar. This process of acquiring language is the same for infants and adults and across varied contexts, such as the family, the classroom, the laboratory, a hospital, or a public encounter. Employing diverse methodologies to study this process, the contributors here work with target languages, including Cantonese, English, French, French Sign Language, German, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Spanish, and Swedish, and offer a much-needed exploration of this growing area of linguistic research.-
Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics
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Challenging the Performance Movement
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Dialect Contact
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Arabic Language and Linguistics
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Measured Language
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Variable Properties in Language
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Little Words
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Discourse 2.0
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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity
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Approaches to Discourse Analysis
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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2000: Linguistics, Language, and the Professions
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Telling Stories
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Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education
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Discourse and Technology
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Diversity and Super-Diversity
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Languages in Africa
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Implicit and Explicit Language Learning
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Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities
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Language in Use
Lourdes Ortega is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown Univeristy. She is the author of Understanding Second Language Acquisition and coauthor of Technology-Mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks. Andrea Tyler is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She is a coauthor of Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning.Hae In Park is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Marika Uno is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781626163249 |
| ISBN 10 | 1626163243 |
| Title | The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism |
| Author | Lourdes Ortega |
| Series | Georgetown University Round Table On Languages And Linguistics Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
| Year published | 2016-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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