LINGUIST List 22.5056 Wed Dec 14 2011 Books: Cognitive Science/Language Acquisition: van Veen Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Mariëtte Bonenkamp , The acquisition of causal connectives: van Veen Message 1: The acquisition of causal connectives: van Veen Date: 12-Dec-2011 From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl> Subject: The acquisition of causal connectives: van Veen E-mail this message to a friend Title: The acquisition of causal connectives Subtitle: The role of parental input and cognitive complexity Series Title: LOT dissertation series Published: 2011 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT                 http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Author: Rosie van Veen Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930690 Pages: Price: Europe EURO Abstract: During language acquisition children must learn to use causal connectives, such as because. Acquiring these linguistics markers of causal coherence relations between utterances can be regarded as learning one of the most important 'building blocks' of language at a discourse level. This study investigates how children's use of causal connectives develops. It takes a cross-linguistic approach by investigating the English causal connective because as well as its German counterpart weil and the Dutch equivalents want and omdat. Growth curve analysis is used to track young children's production of causal connectives in longitudinal corpora. This method is used to investigate two factors that may influence connective acquisition. First, the parental input: does parental connective use and parental scaffolding through why-questions influence the development of causal connectives? Second, the cognitive complexity of the causal relation: does the relative complexity of objective and subjective causal relations influence the subsequent development of these relations? As an additional measure, this study also includes an innovative eye-tracking experiment - based on the preferential looking paradigm - that test young children's comprehension of causal relations. Overall, results show that connective acquisition is an intricate system in which cognitive complexity and parent-child interaction play an important role. Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science                             Language Acquisition Subject Language(s): English (eng) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=58600 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu Hodder Education http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Pearson Linguistics http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/linguistics Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp University of Nebraska Press Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 14-Dec-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.