scholarly journals The acquisition of adverbs in trilingual children: does transfer play any role?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihaela Pirvulescu ◽  
Virginia Hill ◽  
Nadia Nacif ◽  
Rena Helms-Park ◽  
Maria Petrescu
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
School Age ◽  
Adverb Placement

In this paper, we focus on the acquisition of adverbs in order to identify the role of transfer in the context of trilingual language acquisition. The trilingual data for our study comes from children born in Canada who have Romanian as heritage language and are exposed to French in school and to English as the societal language. As these children are of school age, our study provides important insights since trilingualism in children is less studied. The variable under scrutiny is the position of adverbs that conform to Cinque’s (1999) hierarchy in the adult grammar of each language. The results indicate that children have adult competence for adverb placement in all three languages. However, some errors arise in French signaling transfer of parametric settings from Romanian. We conclude that this is a non-facilitative transfer justified by the typological proximity in parametric settings between Romanian and French.

scholarly journals Effects of parental input quality in child heritage language acquisition

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-736
Author(s):  
Evangelia DASKALAKI ◽  
Elma BLOM ◽  
Vasiliki CHONDROGIANNI ◽  
Johanne PARADIS
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Input Quality ◽  
Heritage Language Acquisition ◽  
Parental Input

AbstractThis study investigates the role of parental input quality on the acquisition of Greek as a heritage language in Western Canada. Focusing on subject use, we tested four groups of Greek speakers: monolingual children, heritage children, and the parents of each one of those groups. Participants completed an elicited production task designed to elicit subject placement in wide focus and embedded interrogative contexts, where postverbal subjects are preferred/required in the monolingual variety. Results gave rise to two main conclusions: first, the parental input received by heritage children may be qualitatively different from the parental input received by monolingual children, in that it contains a higher rate of deviant preverbal subjects. Second, parental input quality in addition to quantity may affect the outcome of heritage language acquisition, in that children producing a higher rate of preverbal subjects had parents whose Greek input was not only quantitatively reduced, but also richer in preverbal subjects.

scholarly journals The development of English as a heritage language: The role of chronological age and age of onset of bilingualism

2020 ◽  
pp. 014272372092981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Armon-Lotem ◽  
Karen Rose ◽  
Carmit Altman
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Heritage Language Acquisition ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Heritage Language Speakers

This study explores typically developing bilingual children’s performance in their English as a heritage language. The aim of this study is to advance our understanding of heritage language expectations and the role of chronological age and bilingual exposure. A broad range of receptive and expressive linguistic domains are investigated as a function of chronological age and age of onset of bilingualism. English–Hebrew typically developing bilingual children ( N = 240), ages 60–77 months, were compared to monolingual norms, using seven subtest standardized scores from the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool-2 (CELF-Preschool-2). Descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANCOVAs, multiple regression analysis, and post-hoc comparisons were conducted. English heritage language speakers presented with an asymmetric linguistic system influenced by their chronological age and age of onset of bilingualism. Results demonstrated that performance was more advanced for measures that were less reliant on language-specific skills. Measures dependent on grammatical knowledge were vulnerable to limitations but they were within the monolingual norms. In contrast, the lexicon was heavily influenced by bilingualism. These findings contribute to the literature on bilingual linguistic expectations and will have implications for theories of heritage language acquisition and language acquisition in general.

Language and affective processing implemented within a crossdisciplinary conceptual framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sharwood Smith
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Experienced Emotion ◽  
Theoretical Apparatus

AbstractThe way in which affective processing influences the use and development of language in both monolinguals and multilinguals requires a theoretical apparatus that draws on and integrates research in different areas of cognitive science. The Modular Online Growth and Use of Language aims to provide researchers with just such a service. In the contribution that follows, a number of examples will be provided to demonstrate how this conceptual framework can be implemented in order to bring some clarity to our understanding of affective processing. These examples, which cover much more than affect as consciously experienced emotion, include a range of apparently heterogenous phenomena namely (a) how affect influences code selection either within a language, such as when choosing between a formal and informal style or, in the case of bi/multilingualism, choosing between languages, (b) how affective processing subtly influences semantic judgements, (c) how heritage language use can be explained and finally d) the role of affect in language acquisition and attrition.

Overhearing a Language During Childhood

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Kit-fong Au ◽  
Leah M. Knightly ◽  
Sun-Ah Jun ◽  
Janet S. Oh
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Language Experience ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Heritage Language Acquisition

Despite its significance for understanding of language acquisition, the role of childhood language experience has been examined only in linguistic deprivation studies focusing on what cannot be learned readily beyond childhood. This study focused instead on long-term effects of what can be learned best during childhood. Our findings revealed that adults learning a language speak with a more nativelike accent if they overheard the language regularly during childhood than if they did not. These findings have important implications for understanding of language-learning mechanisms and heritage-language acquisition.

Könyvismertetések

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
István Fekete ◽  
Mária Gósy ◽  
Rozália Eszter Ivády ◽  
Péter Kardos
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Perception And Action

DianePecherés RolfA. Zwaan(szerk.): Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking (Fekete István)     253 CsépeValéria: Az olvasó agy (Gósy Mária) 256 Kormos, Judit: Speech production and second language acquisition (Ivády Rozália Eszter)      260 MarosánGyörgy: Hogyan készül a történelem? (Kardos Péter) 263

Role of a nurse in the rehabilitation of children using ReviMotion hardware and software complex

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
T. Shirshova
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Equipment Management ◽  
School Age ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Software Complex ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
The Central Nervous System

Disorders of the musculoskeletal system in school-age children occupy 1-2 places in the structure of functional abnormalities. Cognitive impairment without organic damage to the central nervous system is detected in 30-56% of healthy school children. Along with the increase in the incidence rate, the demand for rehabilitation systems, which allow patients to return to normal life as soon as possible and maintain the motivation for the rehabilitation process, is also growing. Adaptation of rehabilitation techniques, ease of equipment management, availability of specially trained personnel and availability of technical support for complexes becomes important.

Language Ideology and Second Language Learning

2008 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Explanatory Power

AbstractThe increasing recognition of the concept language ideology and the corresponding increasing use of the term have not yet been matched by applications in the field of second language acquisition. However, applications of the concept in analysis of actual classroom practices have shown it to have considerable explanatory power. Greater consideration of language ideology in SLA is necessary not only to achieve greater understanding of the role of ideology in various areas but also to show connections between these areas that may yield important generalizations and to impel the application of the concept in areas where it has been neglected by highlighting its uneven treatment.

scholarly journals Attribution of autonomy and its role in robotic language acquisition

AI & Society ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Förster ◽  
Kaspar Althoefer
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Baseline Scenario ◽  
Behavioral Repertoire ◽  
High Frequencies ◽  
Emotional Displays ◽  
And Robotics ◽  
Respective Characteristic

AbstractThe false attribution of autonomy and related concepts to artificial agents that lack the attributed levels of the respective characteristic is problematic in many ways. In this article, we contrast this view with a positive viewpoint that emphasizes the potential role of such false attributions in the context of robotic language acquisition. By adding emotional displays and congruent body behaviors to a child-like humanoid robot’s behavioral repertoire, we were able to bring naïve human tutors to engage in so called intent interpretations. In developmental psychology, intent interpretations can be hypothesized to play a central role in the acquisition of emotion, volition, and similar autonomy-related words. The aforementioned experiments originally targeted the acquisition of linguistic negation. However, participants produced other affect- and motivation-related words with high frequencies too and, as a consequence, these entered the robot’s active vocabulary. We will analyze participants’ non-negative emotional and volitional speech and contrast it with participants’ speech in a non-affective baseline scenario. Implications of these findings for robotic language acquisition in particular and artificial intelligence and robotics more generally will also be discussed.

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