Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion

1991 ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Hyams
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquistion

Positive and negative evidence in language acquistion

1989 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Grimshaw ◽  
Steven Pinker
Keyword(s):  
Negative Evidence ◽  
Language Acquistion

scholarly journals On the semantics of metaphor

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanda Božičević
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Literal Meaning ◽  
Metaphorical Language ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Semantical Theory ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Semantical Point ◽  
Language Acquistion

The article discusses the problem of metaphor from the semantical point of view, at the lexical level. Alter havins explained why do metaphors represent a touch stone of any semantical theory, and after having given a brief survey of possible theoretical solutions of the problem, the author exposes her own view of metaphor based on late Wittgenstein's theory of meaning. On the assumption that there should be no artificial break between semantics and pragmatics the author argues that the same semantical, pragmatical an epistemological principles govern the production and interpretation of literal and metaphorical language. The difference between literal and metaphorical is understood as a token, and not a type difference, depending on what is considered to be the common meaning of a word. Metaphor Is defined as a semantic innovation, nomination, realized by the extension of literal meaning. Arguments for her thesis the author finds in the analysis of the processes of language acquistion.

Research Priorities in Language and Learning

1980 ◽  
Vol 89 (5_suppl) ◽  
pp. 182-184
Author(s):  
Paul Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Language Disorders ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Normal Language ◽  
Language Acquistion

The paper reviews recent work in the area of linguistics applied to abnormal language development, specifically in the area of grammar. Particular attention is paid to the notion of linguistic profiling as a procedure for assessment and remediation, using information from normal language development research as a guide. It is suggested that in addition to the potential benefit of the continuing advance in knowledge of normal language acquistion for studies of language disorders, the study of the language of mothers to children could prove of considerable value to the speech and language pathologist.

Development of Phrase Structure Rules Involved in Tag Questions Elicited from Children

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-512
Author(s):  
Carl O. McGrath ◽  
LuVern H. Kunze
Keyword(s):  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Normal Children ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Question Formation ◽  
Tag Questions ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
Language Acquistion

This study demonstrated another way of measuring increasing precision in generating linguistic structure by children who are beyond the age for primary language acquistion. Tag questions were elicited from normal children ranging in age from five to 11 years. Their errors in generating tag questions established that there is a definite hierarchy of difficulty involved in the acquisition of the four linguistic operations which can account for tag question formation. These operations, from most to least difficult, are (1) addition or deletion of negation, (2) auxiliary verb selection, (3) pronoun selection, and (4) inversion of the pronoun and the auxiliary verb. This hierarchy remains constant from five through 11 years of age. Evidence is presented that younger children tend to abstract alternate phrase structure rules which are less complex (relative to the number of operations required) than the rules which can account for spontaneously generated tag questions.

Language Acquistion: A Many Splendored Process

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
Sally M. Rogow
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquistion
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