The development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish

Johnston, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I.

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“…"pay attention to the ends of words" -children learn postpositions more easily than prepositions; "pay attention to the order of words and morphemes" -children make very few ordering errors). The Operational Principles (OP) approach guided the development of the ambitious Berkeley Four-Language project, which investigated the acquisition of morphosyntax in four typologically divergent languages, English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish, using comparable child language data (Ammon & Slobin, 1979;Johnston & Slobin, 1979;Slobin & Bever, 1982). This, together with other seminal cross-linguistic work of the period (e.g.…”

Section: A Very Brief History Of Comparative/crosslinguistic Studies mentioning

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Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

Norcliffe

Harris

Jaeger

2015

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field, where theorising is still largely guided by the often implicit assumption of universality. This paper introduces a special issue of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience devoted to the topic of cross-linguistic and field-based approaches to the study of psycholinguistics. The papers in this issue draw on data from a variety of genetically and areally divergent languages, to address questions in the production and comprehension of phonology, morphology, words, and sentences. To contextualise these studies, we provide an overview of the field of cross-linguistic psycholinguistics, from its early beginnings to the present day, highlighting instances where cross-linguistic data have significantly contributed to psycholinguistic theorising

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Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

Norcliffe

Harris

Jaeger

2015

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…Other studies have looked into the acquisition patterns of different types of prepositions (Johnston and Slobin, 1979, Conner and Chapman, 1985, Tomasello, 1987, studies on the frequent use of prepositions (Johnston and Slobin, 1979, Johnston, 1984, Furrow, Murray and Furrow, 1985/1986 and also studies on the frequency of errors for the English prepositions (Durkin, 1981, Leikin, 1998, Abkarian, 1983. All these studies on prepositions had used children at different age levels as their subjects.…”

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Textbook Representation of Prepositions

Mukundan¹,

Roslim²

2009

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This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions which are presented in three English language textbooks used by lower secondary schools in Malaysia. The aims were to find out the distributions of prepositions, its frequency order in comparison with the British National Corpus (BNC) and the differences in terms of their co-occurrence with other parts of speech. The findings showed that there is a difference between the textbook corpus and the BNC in terms of the frequency order of certain prepositions and there are similarities and differences in terms of their co-occurrence with other parts of speech. This study indicates the textbook corpus is essential in the study of prepositions and the results can guide teachers in deciding how best to supplement the text with activities that will give learners exposure to target grammar item that is not sufficiently presented in the textbook.

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“…In this case, the child acquires the new prepositions context-by-context or type-by-type. From one conceptual standpoint, continuity can be expected if the order of acquisition follows the underlying conceptual complexity of prepositions (Clark, 1978;Johnston & Slobin, 1979), that is, if the acquisition of the related non-linguistic spatial knowledge is continuous. From the modular point of view, continuity can also be expected, as the result of the mapping of spatial concepts between three main cognitive modules, namely perception, action and language (van Geert, 1986).…”

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Wobbles, humps and sudden jumps: a case study of continuity, discontinuity and variability in early language development

Dijk

Geert

2007

Infant and Child Development

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Current individual-based, process-oriented approaches (dynamic systems theory and the microgenetic perspective) have led to an increase of variability-centred studies in the literature. The aim of this article is to propose a technique that incorporates variability in the analysis of the shape of developmental change. This approach is illustrated by the analysis of time serial language data, in particular data on the development of preposition use, collected from four participants. Visual inspection suggests that the development of prepositions-in-contexts shows a characteristic pattern of two phases, corresponding with a discontinuity. Three criteria for testing such discontinuous phase-wise change in individual data are presented and applied to the data. These are: (1) the sub-pattern criterion, (2) the peak criterion and (3) the membership criterion. The analyses rely on bootstrap and resampling procedures based on various null hypotheses. The results show that there are some indications of discontinuity in all participants, although clear inter-individual differences have been found, depending on the criteria used. In the discussion we will address several fundamental issues concerning (dis)continuity and variability in individual-based, process-oriented data sets. Copyright # 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Key words: intra-individual variability; early language development; continuity; discontinuity; random sampling techniques; dynamic systems theory; microgenetic One of the major achievements of individual-based, process-oriented approaches (dynamic systems theory and the microgenetic perspective) is the increase in the number of variability-centred studies that have appeared in the literature. The implication is that a growing number of researchers acknowledge the meaningfulness of intra-individual variability and show an interest in irregular aspects of

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The development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish

Cited by 338 publications

References 9 publications

Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

Textbook Representation of Prepositions

Wobbles, humps and sudden jumps: a case study of continuity, discontinuity and variability in early language development

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