11.2203, Books: Language Acquisition,Modified (Issue#11.2191-2)

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Date:  12 Oct 2000 12:23:49 -0000
From:  Gillian Caglayan <G.Caglayan at deGruyter.de>
Subject:  Modified (Issue#11.2191-2): Language Acquisition, P. Li & Y. Shirai

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Date:  12 Oct 2000 12:23:49 -0000
From:  Gillian Caglayan <G.Caglayan at deGruyter.de>
Subject:  Modified (Issue#11.2191-2): Language Acquisition, P. Li & Y. Shirai

>>From the series
Studies on Language Acquisition
Series Editor: Peter Jordens

Ping Li and Yasuhiro Shirai
The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect

2000. 23 x 15,5 cm. ix, 261 pages.
Cloth. DM 178,- /EUR 91,01 /öS 1299,- /sFr 158,- /approx. US$ 89.00
ISBN 3-11-016615-1
(STUDIES ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 16)

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the acquisition of
lexical and grammatical aspect, in both first and second language
acquisition. More specifically, it presents a comprehensive analysis
of how child and adult speakers learn to mark aspect, an important
subsystem of language that marks the temporal contour of events by
means of inherent lexical meanings and/or grammatical morphology (in
contrast to tense which marks the temporal location of events with
respect to past, present, and future). The studies presented are based
on the authors' research on English, Chinese, and Japanese, and they
address the issue of the acquisition of aspect from a number of
different perspectives, among them crosslinguistic, developmental, and
computational. Detailed empirical results are integrated with
theoretical analyses and syntheses, along dimensions such as
innateness versus input, prototypes versus cryptotypes, rules versus
connections.

Linguistically, the authors' approach to aspectual phenomena relies on
the interaction between lexical aspect (e.g. state, activity,
accomplishment, and achievement) and grammatical aspect (e.g.
perfective, imperfective, and progressive). Developmentally, their
approach to acquisition phenomena relies on connectionist
distributional learning that gives rise to categories of protototypes
and cryptotypes.

Readers from linguistics, psychology, language acquisition, language
education, and cognitive science should all find this book a relevant
and important text for their research and teaching.

Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Aspect: Problem of lexicon and morphology
        Theories of language acquisition and the acquisition of aspect
Acquisition of aspect in English
Acquisition of aspect in Chinese
Acquisition of aspect in Japanese
A connectionist model of the acquisition of aspect
Acquisition of aspect: Conclusions and future directions

Postscript
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index

About the authors:
Professor Ping Li is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University
of Richmond, United States.
Professor Yasuhiro Shirai is Associate Professor, Department of Asian
Studies, at Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

For more information please contact the publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin, Germany
Fax: +49 30 26005 222
e-mail: orders at degruyter.de

Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.degruyter.com

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