The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism
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The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism
Lourdes Ortega, Andrea E. Tyler, Hae In Park, and Mariko Uno, Editors
When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual language acquisition, works. Lourdes Ortega is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown Univeristy. She is the author of Understanding Second Language Acquisition and coauthor of Technology-Mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks.
Reviews
"Usage-based linguistics turns our understanding of the nature of language, its use and its development upside down. Its focus on meaning, learning from exemplars, the emergence and entrenchment of constructions, and its acknowledgement of variation make it undeniably one of the most exciting linguistic developments of our time. This volume justifies my enthusiasm: from its application to populations, languages and syntactic structures that are rarely studied, to the introduction, refinement, and use of new methodologies, and its representation of multilingual data and the attitudes of multilinguals, it amply demonstrates why a usage-based approach has so much to offer."—Diane Larsen-Freeman, Professor Emerita of Linguistics and of Education, University of Michigan "This volume marks the coming of age of usage-based research into multilingual acquisition and its application across languages, learners and contexts. Cutting-edge contributions illustrate the latest methods and theoretical developments."—Nick Ellis, University of Michigan Table of Contents Illustrations Preface 1. The Vibrant and Expanded Study of Usage-based Language Learning and Multilingualism Lourdes Ortega and Andrea E. Tyler PART 1. USAGE-BASED DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN 2. A Multimodal Approach to the Development of Negation in Signed and Spoken Languages: Four Case Studies Aliyah Morgenstern, Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Marion Blondel, and Dominique Boutet 3. Why Don't You Just Learn it from the Input? A Usage-based Corpus Study on the Acquisition of Conventionalized Indirect Speech Acts in English and German Ursula Kania 4. Prepositional Phrases as Manner Adverbials in the Development of Hebrew L1 Text Production Gilad Brandes And Dorit Ravid 5. Negative Constructions in Nonliterate Learners' Spoken L2 Finnish Taina Tammelin-Laine And Maisa Martin 6. How Do Multilinguals Conceptualize Interactions Among Languages Studied? Operationalizing Perceived Positive Language Interaction (PPLI) Amy S. Thompson PART II. THE CORPUS-AIDED, USAGE-BASED STUDY OF LEARNER LANGUAGE 7. A Friendly Conspiracy of Input, L1, and Processing Demands: That-variation in the Language of German and Spanish Learners of English Stefanie Wulff 8. Measuring Lexical Frequency: Comparison Groups and Subject Expression in L2 Spanish Bret Linford, Avizia Long, Megan Solon, and Kimberly L. Geeslin 9. Article Omission: Toward Establishing How Referents are Tracked in L2 English Monika Ekiert 10. Measuring L2 Explicit Knowledge of English Verb-Particle Constructions: Frequency and Semantic Transparency at Two Proficiency Levels Helen Zhao and Fenfen Le PART III. THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF USAGE-BASED PROCESSING AND LEARNING 11. Can English-Spanish Emerging Bilinguals Use Agreement Morphology to Overcome Word Order Bias? Silvia Marijuan, Sol Lago, and Cristina Sanz 12. Miniature Artificial Language Learning as a Complement to Typological Data Maryia Fedzechkina, Elissa L. Newport, and T. Florian Jaeger PART IV. MULTILINGUALISM IN THE WILD: USAGE-BASED INSIGHTS 13. Patterns of Interaction in Doctor-Patient Communication and Their Impact on Health Outcomes Diana Slade, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Graham Lock, Jack Pun, and Marvin Lam 14. Toward a Model of Multilingual Usage Michael Achard and Sarah Lee Contributors Index Contributors Michel Achard Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel Marion Blondel Dominique Boutet Gilad Brandes Monika Ekiert Maryia Fedzechkina Kimberly L. Geeslin T. Florian Jaeger Ursula Kania Sol Lago Marvin Lam Fenfen Le Sarah Lee Bret Linford Avizia Y. Long Maisa Martin Silvia Marijuan Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen Aliyah Morgenstern Elissa L. Newport Lourdes Ortega Hae In Park Dorit Ravid Cristina Sanz Diana Slade Megan Solon Taina Tammelin-Laine Amy S. Thompson Andrea Tyler Mariko Uno Stefanie Wulff Helen Zhao |