Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Language and the Human Lifespan (LHLS)

ISSN: 2196-8306

e-ISSN 2196-8314

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De Gruyter Mouton and the American Psychological Association (APA) are partnering to co-publish an exciting new book series entitled Language and the Human Lifespan [LHLS]. The volumes in this series feature the best contemporary research on topics where psychology and language intersect. Individual volumes explore the theories, methods, and practices of language acquisition, psycholinguistics, culture and emotion, infant and child development, bilingualism, aging, and more. Each volume has chapters written by both psychologists and linguists. The volume editors are also chosen from both disciplines. The series is essential for all who work in or are interested in the porous disciplinary boundaries of psychology and linguistics. The prestige and reach of the APA and De Gruyter Mouton publishing programs represent a combination of leading-edge scholarship and world-wide coverage in all media.

Buch 2022

Gesture in Language

Development Across the Lifespan

Aliyah Morgenstern, Susan Goldin-Meadow

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Through constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children’s language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions containing multiple cross-modal elements subtly used together for communicative functions. Sensorimotor schemas provide the "grounding" of language in experience and lead to children’s access to the symbolic function. With the emergence of vocal or signed productions, gestures do not disappear but remain functional and diversify in form and function as children become skilled adult multimodal conversationalists.

This volume examines the role of gesture over the human lifespan in its complex interaction with speech and sign. Gesture is explored in the different stages before, during, and after language has fully developed and a special focus is placed on the role of gesture in language learning and cognitive development. Specific chapters are devoted to the use of gesture in atypical populations.

CONTENTS

Contributors

Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow
1 Introduction to Gesture in Language

Part I: An Emblematic Gesture: Pointing

Kensy Cooperrider and Kate Mesh
2 Pointing in Gesture and Sign

Aliyah Morgenstern
3 Early Pointing Gestures

Part II: Gesture Before Speech

Meredith L. Rowe, Ran Wei, and Virginia C. Salo
4 Early Gesture Predicts Later Language Development

Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, and Virginia Volterra
5 Interaction Among Modalities and Within Development

Part III: Gesture With Speech During Language Learning

Eve V. Clark and Barbara F. Kelly
6 Constructing a System of Communication With Gestures and Words

Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel
7 Embodying Language Complexity: Co-Speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4

Casey Hall, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow
8 Gesture Can Facilitate Children’s Learning and Generalization of Verbs

Part IV: Gesture After Speech Is Mastered

Jean-Marc Colletta
9 On the Codevelopment of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in Children

Susan Wagner Cook
10 Understanding How Gestures Are Produced and Perceived

Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, and Seda AkbIyık
11 Gesture in the Aging Brain

Part V: Gesture With More Than One Language

Elena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson
12 Gesture in Bilingual Language Acquisition

Marianne Gullberg
13 Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users’ Speech and Gestures

Gale Stam and Marion Tellier
14 Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow
Afterword: Gesture as Part of Language or Partner to Language Across the Lifespan

Index
About the Editors

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110567526
ISBN:: 9783110567526
ISBN:: 9783111255231
ISBN:: 9783110564983
ISBN:: 9783110565058
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2017

Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning

How We Reorganize and Adapt Linguistic Knowledge

Hans-Jörg Schmid

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In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their investigation into the roots and development of language. With the advent of cognitive-linguistic, usage-based and complex-adaptive models of language, linguists today are utilizing approaches and insights from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, social psychology and other related fields.

A key result of this interdisciplinary approach is the concept of entrenchment—the ongoing reorganization and adaptation of communicative knowledge. Entrenchment posits that our linguistic knowledge is continuously refreshed and reorganized under the influence of social interactions. It is part of a larger, ongoing process of lifelong cognitive reorganization whose course and quality is conditioned by exposure to and use of language, and by the application of cognitive abilities and processes to language.

This volume enlists more than two dozen experts in the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurology, and cognitive psychology in providing a realistic picture of the psychological and linguistic foundations of language. Contributors examine the psychological foundations of linguistic entrenchment processes, and the role of entrenchment in first-language acquisition, second language learning, and language attrition. Critical views of entrenchment and some of its premises and implications are discussed from the perspective of dynamic complexity theory and radical embodied cognitive science.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341423
ISBN:: 9783110341423
ISBN:: 9783110634891
ISBN:: 9783110394528
ISBN:: 9783110341300
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2017

Innovative Investigations of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Letitia Naigles

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In recent decades, a growing number of children have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition characterized by, among other features, social interaction deficits and language impairment. Yet the precise nature of the disorder’s impact on language development is not well understood, in part because of the language variability among children across the autism spectrum. The contributors to this volume — experts in fields ranging from communication disorders to developmental and clinical psychology to linguistics — use innovative techniques to address two broad questions: Is the variability of language development and use in children with ASD a function of the language, such that some linguistic domains are more vulnerable to ASD than others? Or is the variability a function of the individual, such that some characteristics predispose those with ASD to have varying levels of difficulty with language development and use? Contributors investigate these questions across linguistic levels, from lexical semantics and single-clause syntax, to computationally complex phonology and the syntax-pragmatics interface. Authors address both spoken and written domains within the wider context of language acquisition. This timely and broadly accessible volume will be of interest to a broad range of specialists, including linguists, psychologists, sociologists, behavioral neurologists, and cognitive neuroscientists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110409871
ISBN:: 9783110409871
ISBN:: 9783110409956
ISBN:: 9783110409789
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Neurolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2017

Research Methods in Language Acquisition

Principles, Procedures, and Practices

Barbara Lust, Maria Blume

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Language acquisition research is challenging—the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. The audible components of speech, however, are quantifiable and thus provide crucial data. This practical guide synthesizes the authors’ decades of experience into a comprehensive set of tools that will allow students and early career researchers in the field to design and conduct rigorous studies that produce reliable and valid speech data and interpretations.

The authors thoroughly review specific techniques for obtaining qualitative and quantitative speech data, including how to tailor the testing environments for optimal results. They explore observational tasks for collecting natural speech and experimental tasks for eliciting specific types of speech. Language comprehension tasks are also reviewed so researchers can study participants’ interpretations of speech and conceptualizations of grammar. Most tasks are oriented towards children, but special considerations for infants are also reviewed, as well as multilingual children.

Chapters also provide strategies for transcribing and coding raw speech data into reliable data sets that can be scientifically analyzed. Furthermore, they investigate the intricacies of interpretation so that researchers can make empirically sound inferences from their data and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to unscientific conclusions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110415339
ISBN:: 9783110415339
ISBN:: 9783110415605
ISBN:: 9783110415223
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Erstspracherwerb
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Zweitspracherwerb
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2016

Bilingualism Across the Lifespan

Factors Moderating Language Proficiency

Elena Nicoladis, Simona Montanari

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This book pioneers the study of bilingualism across the lifespan and in all its diverse forms. In framing the newest research within a lifespan perspective, the editors highlight the importance of considering an individual's age in researching how bilingualism affects language acquisition and cognitive development. A key theme is the variability among bilinguals, which may be due to a host of individual and sociocultural factors, including the degree to which bilingualism is valued within a particular context.Thus, this book is a call for language researchers, psychologists, and educators to pursue a better understanding of bilingualism in our increasingly global society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341249
ISBN:: 9783110341249
ISBN:: 9783110610468
ISBN:: 9783110340440
ISBN:: 9783110395341
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton