Theory and Language Acquisition
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Theory and Language Acquisition

  1. 297 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Theory and Language Acquisition

About this book

As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy.

The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive linguistics.

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Yes, you can access Theory and Language Acquisition by Martin Pütz, Susanne Niemeier, Martin Pütz,Susanne Niemeier in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of Contributors
  3. Introduction
  4. Section 1: Cognitive approaches to the English tense system
  5. Cognitive linguistics, language pedagogy, and the English present tense
  6. Pretend play: trial ground for the simple present
  7. The relation between experience, conceptual structure and meaning: non-temporal uses of tense and language teaching
  8. Section 2: Facets of prototypes in grammatical constructions
  9. Grammatical constructions and their discourse origins: prototype or family resemblance?
  10. Transitivity parameter and prominence typology: a cross-linguistic study
  11. Section 3: Neurocognitive and cognitive issues of language acquisition in general
  12. Learning syntax – a neurocognitive approach
  13. Conceptual primes in early language development
  14. No preposition required. The role of prepositions for the understanding of spatial relations in language acquisition
  15. The ‘Graded Salience Hypothesis’ in second language acquisition
  16. Subject Index