Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems (Language Acquisition & Language Disorders)

Hardcover, vii + 330 pages, NOT ex-library. Faint marks on outer page edges, short corner creases. Small portions of text highlighted on 4 pages. Book is free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the intersection between linguistic and cognitive systems in language acquisition, covering both first and second language development. It brings together multiple perspectives, including typological, cross-linguistic, and neuro-cognitive approaches, to examine how language learning is shaped by various linguistic and cognitive constraints. Key discussions include the dynamics of language acquisition, modeling developmental trends, syntactic bootstrapping, and the impact of developmental disorders. The book also explores the universals and diversity of first language acquisition, focusing on cross-linguistic variation, linguistic relativity, and the role of goals in child language. In addition, it addresses bilingualism and second language acquisition, with topics such as the effects of age on bilingual development, the progression of verbal morphology, vocabulary learning during foreign language acquisition, and cerebral imaging studies. Cognitive neuroscience is also discussed in relation to how individual differences affect second language learning. This multidisciplinary volume is essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, and researchers interested in the intricate dynamics of language development and acquisition. -- Contents: Introduction: New perspectives in the study of first and second language acquisition: Linguistic and cognitive constraints; Part I. Emergence and dynamics of language acquisition and disorders 1 A tale of two paradigms / Brian MacWhinney; 2 Dynamic systems methods in the study of language acquisition: Modeling and the search for trends, transitions and fluctuations / Paul van Geert; 3 Early bootstrapping of syntactic acquisition / Anne Christophe; 4 Language acquisition in developmental disorders / Michael S.C. Thomas; Part II. First language acquisition: Universals and diversity 5 Language development in a cross-linguistic context / Elena Lieven; 6 A typological approach to first language acquisition / Wolfgang U. Dressler; 7 Linguistic relativity in first language acquisition: Spatial language and cognition / Maya Hickmann; 8 On the importance of goals in child language: Acquisition and impairment data from Hungarian / Csaba Pléh; 9 Promoting patients in narrative discourse: A developmental perspective / Harriet Jisa; 10 On-line grammaticality judgments: A comparative study of French and Portuguese / Michèle Kail; 11 Expression of finiteness by L1 and L2 learners of Dutch, French, and German / Clive Perdue; Part III. Bilingualism and second language acquisition: A multidisciplinary perspective 12 Age of onset in successive acquisition of bilingualism: Effects on grammatical development / Jürgen M. Meisel; 13 Development of person-number verbal morphology in different types of learners / Suzanne Schlyter; 14 Re-thinking the bilingual interactive-activation model from a developmental perspective (BIA-d) / Jonathan Grainger; 15 Foreign language vocabulary learning: Word-type effects during the labeling stage / Annette M.B. de Groot & Rosanne C.L. van den Brink; 16 Cerebral imaging and individual differences in language learning / Christophe Pallier; 17 Cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition and bilingualism: Factors that matter in L2 acquisition – A neuro-cognitive perspective / Susanne Reiterer; Index of languages; Index of subjects -- "How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research during the last two decades has begun to solve some pieces of the puzzle.".