Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take ...place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
The present study examines the development of complex sentences with non-finite clause combining with particular focus on clause chaining, in narratives of 40 Turkish-speaking 4- to 11-year-olds and ...six adults elicited by a wordless picture book. Results show a gradual increase by age in the variety of clauses combined, the length of the complex sentences and their frequency of use. Clause chains formed with converbal clauses are the earliest and most frequent type of clause combinations, already present in 4-year-olds' complex sentences with 1-non-finite clause. Older children's and adults' 2- or 3-non-finite clause complex sentences consist of some combinations of adverbial, complement, relative and converbal clauses. Developmentally, clause chains establish first, aspectual-temporal continuity, then temporal-causal continuity. Sentence-internal and cross-sentence-boundary referential continuities are present early, from age 4 onwards. These findings are discussed in terms of the demands of narrative organization as well as the syntactic and semantic complexity of the clause combination devices in Turkish.
Children's Language Keith E. Nelson; Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡; Ayhan Aksu-Koc ...
04/2014
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These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in ...Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child language research and theory--particularly in the domains of discourse and interaction--they convey not only the flavor of that meeting but some of the most exciting trends in the field today.
Each contribution in Volume 10, Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence , focuses on the differential effects of discourse genres, elicitation techniques, communicative contexts, literacy and schooling, and the oft-cited variables of age, language, and culture. Issues concerning the interrelations between social, cognitive, and affective capacities and processes in discourse are addressed. Each chapter raises theoretical questions regarding how and when representations are constructed to support new complexities. Presenting data from a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspective, this volume highlights both the particulars and the universals of the processes involved.
The chapters in Volume 11, Interactional Contributions to Language Development , address issues including scaffolding of processing and learning in particular interactional sequences; linkages among interpersonal functions or relations, cognitive development, and semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic devices or forms; and models of how interactions proceed, input is selected, and learning advances across multiple rounds of interaction.
Each of these volumes will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all who study the development of language.
Contents: Preface. A. Aksu-Koç, K.E. Nelson, C.E. Johnson, Introduction. R.A. Berman, Setting the Narrative Scene: How Children Begin to Tell a Story. H.J. Batoréo, I.H. Faria, Representation of Movement in European Portugese: A Study of Children's Narratives. M. Bamberg, Why Young American English-Speaking Children Confuse Anger and Sadness: A Study of Grammar in Practice. G. Wigglesworth, A. Stavans, A Crosscultural Investigation of Australian and Israeli Parents' Narrative Interactions With Their Children. K. Nakamura, The Acquisition of Polite Language by Japanese Children. E. Veneziano, Interactional Processes in the Origins of the Explaining Capacity. K. Reeder, Children's Attributions of Pragmatic Intentions and Early Writing Ability. K.E. Nelson, A. Aksu-Koc, C.E. Johnson, Commentaries.
Generation Y forms the majority of today’s workforce. In this respect, it is important for organizations, researchers, and practitioners to reveal the factors that increase the task performance of ...Generation Y. This study investigates the effect of intellectual competencies, one of the qualities that Generation Y values and wants to see in their managers, on their extra-role behavior and task performance. The study adopted the conveient sampling method and was conducted with 356 participants from Generation Y, who work in various sectors. The statistical analyses were performed on the collected data and findings interpreted. The results show that the strategic perspective and analysis, and Vision dimensions of intellectual competencies have a significant and positive effect on the task performance of Generation Y. The results also show that benevolence and civic virtue dimensions of extra-role behavior play a full mediator role in this effect.
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Çiğdem Kağitçibaşi has long been at the forefront of research in developmental and cultural psychology, and is one of the world's most highly respected cross-cultural psychologists. This collection ...of essays has been produced in honor of Professor Kağitçibaşi's retirement and to commemorate her contribution to the field. The volume examines social, developmental, and cultural psychology and intervention policies. A select group of international expert scholars explore those aspects of human behavior that are observed in all cultures, as well as those that are unique to each. They also examine changes in the family across socio-cultural contexts and generations in order to understand the factors precipitating these changes. Representing developments in theory and research in the field, this volume that will appeal to researchers and students of developmental and cross-cultural psychology across the world.
Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child. The chapters in this volume highlight several such factors as ...potential contributors to developmental change, including factors that examine the role of immediate social environment (i.e., parent SES, parent and sibling input, peer interaction) and factors that focus on the child's own cognitive and social development, such as the acquisition of theory of mind, event knowledge, and memory. The discussion of the different factors is presented largely from a crosslinguistic framework, using a multimodal perspective (speech, gesture, sign). The book celebrates the scholarly contributions of Prof. Ayhan Aksu-Koç - a pioneer in the study of crosslinguistic variation in language acquisition, particularly in the domain of evidentiality and theory of mind. This book will serve as an important resource for researchers in the field of developmental psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics across the globe.
Recent scholarship has developed an increasing interest in the materiality of ancient manuscripts. Opisthographs, manuscripts that contain writing on both sides, are of special interest in this ...regard. This short study focuses on two papyrus opisthographs, originating from two different collections: the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and the Dead Sea Scrolls. These manuscripts each bear different compositions on the front side (the recto) and on the back side (the verso). The Greek Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654 (dated to the third century CE) contains on its recto an unpublished survey-list of pieces of land. On the verso we find one of the three copies of the Greek version of the Gospel of Thomas. The Dead Sea Scroll 4Q509, Festival Prayers, is the recto of a Hebrew papyrus that bears copies of two compositions on its verso: the War Scroll (4Q496) and Words of the Luminaries (4Q506). These texts were dated to the first century BCE and the middle of the first century CE. By contextualizing these two manuscripts, I aim to explore the nature of opisthographs as a scribal phenomenon across different cultures in the region. This comparative research will be conducted by considering the materiality of these manuscripts from the perspective of both codicology and palaeography. Subsequently, I will investigate the intertextual relationships between the compositions on both sides of the manuscripts and address related issues such as the ‘useful life’ of these manuscripts and the possibility of personal copies.
Children's Language Nelson, Keith E; Aksu-Ko‡, Ayhan; Johnson, Carolyn E ...
04/2005, Volume:
11
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These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in ...Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child language research and theory--particularly in the domains of discourse and interaction--they convey not only the flavor of that meeting but some of the most exciting trends in the field today.
Each contribution in Volume 10, Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence , focuses on the differential effects of discourse genres, elicitation techniques, communicative contexts, literacy and schooling, and the oft-cited variables of age, language, and culture. Issues concerning the interrelations between social, cognitive, and affective capacities and processes in discourse are addressed. Each chapter raises theoretical questions regarding how and when representations are constructed to support new complexities. Presenting data from a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspective, this volume highlights both the particulars and the universals of the processes involved.
The chapters in Volume 11, Interactional Contributions to Language Development , address issues including scaffolding of processing and learning in particular interactional sequences; linkages among interpersonal functions or relations, cognitive development, and semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic devices or forms; and models of how interactions proceed, input is selected, and learning advances across multiple rounds of interaction.
Each of these volumes will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all who study the development of language.
Contents: A. Aksu-Koç, C.E. Johnson, K.E. Nelson, Preface. M. Aparici, E. Serrat, M. Capdevila, M. Serra, Acquisition of Complex Sentences in Spanish- and Catalan-Speaking Children. M. Almgren, A. Barrena, Bilingual Acquisition and Separation of Linguistic Codes: Ergativity in Basque Versus Accusativity in Spanish. N. Budwig, S. Stein, C. O'Brien, Non-Agent Subjects in Early Child Language: A Crosslinguistic Comparison. A.T. Perez-Leroux, Subjunctive Mood in Spanish Child Relatives: At the Interface of Linguistic and Cognitive Development. C. Day, A Developmental Perspective on Modal Verb Use by French-Speaking Children. K. Nelson, J. Welsh, S. Camarata, T. Tjus, A Rare Event Transactional Model of Tricky Mix Conditions Contributing to Language Acquisition and Varied Communicative Delays. S.M. Suzman, Contrast, the No-Blur Principle, and the Acquisition of Zulu. P. Zukow-Goldring, Perceiving Referring Actions: Latino and Euro-American Infants and Caregivers Comprehending Speech. A. Peltzer-Karpf, R. Zangl, Figure-Ground Segregation in Visual and Linguistic Development: A Dynamic Systems Account. K.E. Nelson, A. Aksu-Koç, C.E. Johnson, Commentaries.
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