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Language-Specific Factors in First Language Acquisition The Expression of Motion Events in French and German

:	Anne-Katharina Harr
:	Language-Specific Factors in First Language Acquisition The Expression of Motion Events in French and German
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9781614511748
:	Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 159.80
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

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A growing number of studies have begun to examine the influence of language-specific factors on language acquisition. During language acquisition, German children from six years on use structures that are similar to those of adults in their language group and also encode all semantic components from an early age. In striking contrast, French children up to ten years have difficulties producing some of the complex structures that are necessary for the simultaneous expression of several semantic components. Nonetheless, in addition to these striking cross-linguistic differences, the results of this study also clearly show similar developmental progressions in other respects, suggesting the impact of general developmental determinants.

< >Anne-Katharina Harr, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä München, Munich, Germany.

	Acknowledgments	7
	0 Introduction	15
	0.1 Why space?	15
	0.2 Space across languages	16
	0.3 A developmental perspective	17
	0.4 The organization of the book	18
	Part I: State of the art	21
	1 Language and cognition	23
	1.1 Convergences of the notions language and cognition	23
	1.1.1 Language	23
	1.1.2 Cognition	29
	1.2 The relation between language and thought	34
	1.2.1 Language is thought	35
	1.2.2 Language and thought do not influence each other	36
	1.2.3 Thought influences language	38
	1.2.4 Language influences thought	40
	1.2.5 Conclusion	42
	2 Linguistic determinism and “thinking for speaking”	44
	2.1 Linguistic determinism	45
	2.2 “Thinking for speaking”	50
	2.3 Implications for language acquisition	53
	2.4 Are we on the wrong track?	56
	2.5 Conclusion	58
	3 The relation between language and cognition in different language acquisition theories	60
	3.1 Nativism	60
	3.1.1 Basic assumptions of nativism about first language acquisition	61
	3.1.2 Criticism and further development of the nativist position	64
	3.2 Cognitivism	68
	3.2.1 Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and his assumptions about first language acquisition	68
	3.2.2 Criticism and further developments of Piaget’s theory	72
	3.3 Constructivism	76
	3.3.1 Construction Grammar and usage-based approaches to first language acquisition	76
	3.3.2 Criticism of constructivist and usage-based research	81
	3.4 Conclusion	84
	4 Selected aspects of spatial cognition in children	87
	4.1 The emergence of spatial cognition	87
	4.2 Spatial relations	89
	4.3 Motion	92
	4.4 Causality	94
	4.5 Summary	96
	5 Verbalizations of motion events	98
	5.1 A typological approach to the expression of motion events: Talmy’s framework	99
	5.2 Variability in the expression of motion events and its cognitive implications: Slobin’s assumptions	112
	5.3 Motion events in child language	119
	5.3.1 Semantic components	120
	5.3.2 Syntactic complexity	127
	5.3.3 Co-verbal gestures.	129
	5.4 Motion events in German	130
	5.5 Motion events in French	139
	6 General assumptions	146
	Part II : Experimental study on the expression of motion events in French and German	149
	7 Methodology	151
	7.1 Participants	151
	7.2 Material	152
	7.2.1 Voluntary Motion	152
	7.2.2 Caused Motion	153
	7.3 Procedure	155
	7.4 Transcription	156
	7.5 Coding System	156
	7.5.1 General coding principles	156
	7.5.2 Basic coding lines	157
	7.5.3 Synthetic coding lines	164
	8 Specific hypotheses	166