Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users.

This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica.

An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies.

Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs.

This volume comprises ten papers presented as plenary lectures on the occasion of the Second World Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) at the University of Kassel, Germany, from July 27 - 31, 1987.

Philip Luelsdorff's highly original approach to the grammar of orthography is to analyse in detail how German pupils learn about written English.

This volume, containing fourteen invited papers on foreign-language policy, starts off with a brief history of foreign-language teaching policy in the Netherlands.

‘Think globally, act locally’ is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges.

This book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese.

This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view.

This books aims to open up new perspectives in the study of language proficiency by bringing together current research from different fields in psychology and linguistics.

These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year.

This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism.

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987.

The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on "e;Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies"e; (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center "e;Multilingualism"e; after twelve years of successful research.

This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of multilingual corpora.

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA.

Eugene Casad's posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora - an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico - within the framework of Ronald Langacker's Cognitive Grammar.

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume's authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition from L3/Ln acquisition is essential.

There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language.

The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers' identification with these languages, their attitude towards other languages in the community, and their choices in interpersonal and intergroup communication.

This volume brings together empirical research that explores interaction in a wide range of educational settings.

The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena.

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s.

This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for the field.

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.

By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition.

This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition.

This volume analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is presented and used as media content; and how the media are discursive sites where debates about multilingualism and other language-related issues unfold.

Grammaticalization and lexicalization are at the heart of first language acquisition.

The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects.

The papers brought together in this volume illustrate how spoken corpora (be they native or learner corpora) can provide insights into various aspects of errors and disfluencies such as pauses and discourse markers.

Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research and developments on the use of learner corpora perceived from developmental and crosslinguistic perspectives.

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners.

Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.

Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should.

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy.

This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world.

Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories.

This volume is dedicated to applied linguistic research on multilingualism.

This book is a critical appraisal of recent developments in corpus linguistics for the analysis of written and spoken learner data.

Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities.

The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages.

Any theory of phonology must be able to account for the acquisition and development of a phonological system, and studying acquisition often leads to reciprocal advances in the theory.

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "e;Interlanguage"e; is a clear exception.

Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or "e;language regimes"e;) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness.

Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally.

Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction.