Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-382) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction ; Piaget's theory of cognitive development and his assumptions about first language acquisition: Space across languages ; A developmental perspective ; The organization of the book -- State of the art. Language and cognition; Convergences of the notions language and cognition: Language: Cognition; The relation between language and thought: Language is thought: Language and thought do not influence each other: Thought influences language: Language influences thought: Conclusion ; Linguistic determinism and "thinking for speaking"; Linguistic determinism; "Thinking for speaking"; Implications for language acquisition; Are we on the wrong track?; Conclusion ; The relation between language and cognition in different language acquisition theories; Nativism: Basic assumptions of nativism about first language acquisition: Criticism and further development of the nativist position; Cognitivism: Piaget's theory of cognitive development and his assumptions about first language acquisition: Coding System: Constructivism: Construction Grammar and usage-based approaches to first language acquisition: Criticism of constructivist and usage-based research; Conclusion ; Selected aspects of spatial cognition in children; The emergence of spatial cognition; Spatial relations; Motion; Causality; Summary ; Verbalizations of motion events; A typological approach to the expression of motion events : Talmy's framework; Variability in the expression of motion events and its cognitive implications : Slobin's assumptions; Motion events in child language: Semantic components: Syntactic complexity: Co-verbal gestures; Motion events in German; Motion events in French ; General assumptions -- Experimental study on the expression of motion events in French and German. Methodology; Participants; Material: Voluntary Motion: Caused Motion; Procedure; Transcription; Coding System: Information Focus: Basic coding lines: Synthetic coding lines ; Specific hypotheses; Density and Information Focus; Information Locus; Global Architecture; Qualitative analyses ; Results : Voluntary Motion; Density: Density as a function of target items: Density in control items; Information Focus: Information Focus in target items : Up-events : Down-events : Across-events: Information Focus in control items; Information Locus: Information Locus in target items : Up-events : Down-events : Across-events: Information Locus in control items; Global Architecture: Global Architecture in target items : Up-events : Down-events : Across-events: Global Architecture in control items; Qualitative Analyses: Verbs: Satellites: Periphery ; Results : Caused Motion; Density: Density as a function of language and age: Density as a function of Manner of action: Density as a function of Path; Information Focus: Limitations of the present study and future research directions -- Information Focus as a function of Manner of action: Information Focus as a function of Manner of the object's motion: Information Focus as a function of Path; Information Locus: Information Locus as a function of language and age: Information Locus as a function of Path; Global Architecture: Global Architecture as a function of language and age: Global Architecture as a function of Path; Qualitative Analyses: Verbs: Satellites: Periphery -- Discussion. Discussion of the results and further research directions; The expression of motion events in French and German; General developmental versus language-specific determinants in children's verbalizations of motion events; Limitations of the present study and future research directions -- Information Locus; Methodology; Material: Items : Voluntary motion: Items : Caused motion ; Results : Voluntary motion; Information Locus; Author index. Verb forms in French; Verb forms in German; French constructions with faire + X ; Results : Caused motion; French verb types; German verb types -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.
Series:
Studies on language acquisition, 1861-4248 ; v. 48
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