Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners

Maya Hickmann (CNRS & Universite Paris 8); Edy Veneziano (Universite Paris Descartes & CNRS); Harriet Jisa (Universite Lumiere Lyon 2 & CNRS)

ISBN 10: 902724412X / ISBN 13: 9789027244123

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902724412X
• ISBN 13: 9789027244123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of variation: language-specific properties, the nature of the input to children across contexts, and several aspects of the learners themselves. Chapters explore these sources of variation within an interdisciplinary and comparative approach allying theories and methodologies stemming from linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. The comparative perspective involves different languages, contexts of use, types of learners (first/second language acquisition, monolingual/bilingual learners, autism, language impairment), as well as vocal and visuo-gestural communicative modalities (co-verbal gestures, sign language acquisition). The volume points to the need to enhance interdisciplinary research using complementary methodologies to further examine sources of variation and to integrate variation into a more general developmental theory.