"Auch and noch in child and adult German" is an empirical study of the early acquisition of "auch" (also) and "noch" (also/still) in German, and the adult use of these additive particles in spoken language. It centres around the question of how children acquire these particles, but it also investigates the way in which adults use these particles in order to determine what children actually have to learn and what the input they get is like. Previous studies on focus particles in adult German mainly focused on the semantic and syntactic properties of primarily constructed examples. Based on several corpora of spoken German, this is the first comprehensive study of natural language data that systematically analyses the intonation of focus particle utterances as well as their semantic, syntactic and information structural properties. The study of the child data, an extensive longitudinal corpus of one German child, was carried out against the background of the adult data. It offers a thorough characterisation of the acquisition of the two additive particles that also takes into account results from previous studies on the acquisition of focus particles, mainly on their comprehension. In addition to studying the acquisition of these particles, the author also introduces an analysis of focus particles that emphasises the differences between stressed and unstressed particles, which makes this book not only interesting to researchers in language acquisition and psycholinguistics, but also to those interested in phonology/prosody, semantics, syntax, and information structure. From the Contents1. INTRODUCTION1.1. FOCUS PARTICLE IN GERMAN - A FIRST ANALYSIS1.2. ACUIRING FOCUS PARTICLES1.3. SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AUCH AND NOCH IN ADULT GERMAN1.4. CONSTRUCTED EXAMPLES VS. NATURAL DISCOURSE1.5. RATIONALE OF THIS STUDY1.6. ORGANISATION OF THIS BOOKPART I2. FOCUS PARTICLES - A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE2.1. INTRODUCTION2.2. THE MEANING OF AUCH AND NOCH2.3. THE SYNTAX OF AUCH AND NOCH2.4. THE PROSODY OF FOCUS PARTICLE UTTERANCES2.5. INFORMATION STRUCTURE, FOCUS AND THE DOMAIN OF APPLICATION2.6. CONCLUSION3. AUCH AND NOCH IN SPOKEN GERMAN - AIM, DATA AND METHOD OF THE STUDY3.1. THE AIM OF THE STUDY3.2. THE DATA3.3. THE METHODN4. RESULTS4.1. UANTITATIVE RESULTS4.2. UALITATIVE RESULTS5. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION5.1. USAGE PATTERNS OF Auch AND Noch5.2. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION5.3. INTONATION OF Auch- AND Noch-UTTERANCES5.4. THE MEANING OF Auch AND Noch5.5. THE SYNTAX OF Auch AND Noch5.6. THE ANALYSIS OF FOCUS PARTICLES6. AN ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS6.1. PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS6.2. THE ANALYSIS OF AUCH6.3. THE ANALYSIS FOR auchPART II7. CHILD LANGUAGE - AIM, DATA AND METHOD7.1. INTRODUCTION7.2. THE DATA7.3. ANALYSING CHILD LANGUAGE8. RESULTS8.1. UANTITATIVE RESULTS8.2. UALITATIVE RESULTS9. THE ACUISITION OF AUCH AND NOCH9.1. A FIRST COMPARISON9.2. THE ACUISITION OF AUCH AND NOCH9.3. CONSEUENCES FOR THE ACUISITION OF THE TWO PARTICLES9.4. THE ACUISITION OF AUCH AND NOCH IN CHILD LANGUAGE9.5. SUMMARY10. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION10.1. THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ADULT SPOKEN GERMAN10.2. THE ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS OF AUCH AND Auch10.3. THE TWO PARTICLES IN CHILD LANGUAGE10.4. LEARNING HOW TO USE Auch AND Noch10.5. FUTURE RESEARCHSIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER.To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-FachverlagePostfach 434372774 Reutlingen, GermanyFax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33E-mail: deGruyter@s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico:Walter de Gruyter, Inc.200 Saw Mill River RoadHawthorne, NY 10532, USAFax: +1 (914) 747-1326E-mail: cs@degruyterny.com