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Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Study of Language

Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

• Edited by Elena Lieven

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• Price: $195.00
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 584
• Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Publication Date: 17th October 2008 (Available for Pre-order)
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-5998-0

About the Book

Dan Isaac Slobin has been a major intellectual and creative force in the field of child language development, linguistics and psycholinguistics for the past 40 years. It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of his contribution. In this volume, conceived as a tribute to Slobin's enormous intellectual contribution, researchers take up the challenge of language differences to forward research in the major areas with which Slobin has been concerned throughout his career: (i) language learning from a crosslinguistic perspective (spoken and sign languages), (ii) the integration of language specific factors in narrative skill, (iii) theoretical issues in typology, language development and language change, and (iv) the relationship between language and cognition.

Table of Contents

E. Lieven, J. Guo, Introduction. Section 1: Language Learning in Crosslinguistic Perspective. S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, Introduction. Aylin Küntay, Revisiting Variation Sets and Their Uptake in Turkish. P. Clancy, Dialogic Priming and the Acquisition of Argument-marking in Korean. A. Kyratzis, Transitivity and Control Acts in Toddlers' Peer Disputes in Daycare. K. Demuth, Revisiting the Acquisition of Sesotho Noun Class Prefixes. E. Sebastian, V.C. Mueller Gathercole, P. Soto, Early Verbal Morphology in Spanish. M. Kuntze, Gauging the Development of Morphemic Complexity in American Sign Language. H. Behrens, Directional Particles in German Child and Adult Language. R. Weist, One-to-one Mapping of Temporal and Spatial Relations. S. Goldin-Meadow, A. Å�zyürek, S. Van Deusen Phillips, B. Sancar, C. Mylander, Spontaneous Gesture Systems in Four Cultures. J. Berko Gleason, R. Ely, B. Phillips, E. Zaretsky, Alligators All Around: The Acquisition of Animal Terms in English and Russian. M. Rispoli, Of Principles, Paradigms and Predictions. N. Budwig, An Indexical Approach to Early Grammatical Development. Section 2: Narratives and Their Development: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Pragmatic Issues. R. Berman, M. Bamberg, Introduction. R.A. Berman, B. Nir-Sagiv, Clause Packaging in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study. L. de Leon, Evidentials in Tzotzil (Mayan) Children's Narratives. E. Bavin, From Sentence to Discourse: Warlpiri Children's Narratives. J. Guo, L. Chen, Learning to Express Motion in Narratives by Mandarin-speaking Children. M. Hickmann, H. Hendriks, C. Champaud,Typological Constraints on Motion in French Child Language. A. Nicolopoulou,The Depiction of Path and Manner in Young Children's Stories. Å. Å�zçaliÅŸkan, Learning to Talk About Motion in Language-specific Ways in English and Turkish. K.-J. Oh, Motion Events in English and Korean Fictional Writings and Translations. M. Smoczynska, Evaluative Perspective on Presenting Events in a Narrative. K. Nakamura, The Development of Emotive Language in Japanese Narratives. R. Berthele, Face, Frogs, and Motion Verbs in Alpine Speech Communities. J. Gumperz, J. Cook Gumperz, Evoking Past Action: Constructing Social Memories in Narrative Accounts. J. Gerhardt, Starving Signifiers, Stagnant Speech in the Narratives of the Psychoanalytic Encounter. Section 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Typology, Language Development and Language Change. E. Lieven, Introduction. R. Van Valin, UG Without an LAD. B. MacWhinney, The Psycholinguistic Implications of Obligatory Marking: From Whorf to Slobin. W. Klein, The Properties of the Baker are not the Properties of the Bread. T.G. Bever, Intrinsic Motivations to Acquire Language. E. Sweetser, What are we Comparing?: Language, Gesture and Modality. J. Bybee, Grammaticization as a Theory of Language. T. Givon, S. Savage Rumbaugh, Can Apes Learn Grammar?: A Short Detour into Language Evolution. L. Talmy, Main Verb Properties and Equipollent Framing. A. Kopecka, Continuity and Change in the Representation of Motion Events in French.
I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Path Salience in Motion Events. W. Sampaio, C. Sinha, V. da Silva Sinha, Mixing and Mapping: Motion and Manner in Amondawa (Uru-eu-uau-uau). Section 4: Language and Cognition: Universals and Typological Comparisons.
M. Bowerman, Introduction. J. Johnston, The Improbability of Specific Language Impairment. A. Aksu-Koç, Revisiting Evidentials: An Interface Between Linguistic and Conceptual Development. M. Bowerman, D. Gentner, Learning to Categorize 'In' and 'On' Relations in Dutch and English. J.A. Lucy, Language as a Problem Space: Why Linguistic Relativity Effects Appear Late in Development. S. Pourcel, Relativistic Application of Thinking for Speaking. S. Stramqvist, H. Ragnarsdottir, K. Holmqvist, Thinking-for-speaking and Channelling of Attention in Icelandic and Swedish. D. McNeill, Imagery for Speaking. P. Brown, S. Levinson, Learning an Absolute Spatial System: 'Uphill, Downhill' in Tzeltal. A. Ozyurek, S. Goldin-Meadow, O. Gurcanli, T. Goksun, Gestural Expressions of Motion Events With and Without a Language. S. Duncan, S. Choi, Gesture and Thinking-for-speaking in L1 and L2 Storytelling. L. Verhoeven, A. Vermeer, Cognitive Precursors of Early First and Second Language Proficiency. S. Stoll, B. Bickel, Rhetorical Typology and Speaker Variation. E. Veneziano et al., Learning to Tell a Story of False Belief : A Study of French-speaking Children. C.J. Fillmore, L. Wong Fillmore, Learning Academic English Vocabulary as a Second Dialect.