Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

by Braunmuller, Kurt Gabriel, Christoph

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Title Statements

Full title :Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies.

Summary

The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on "Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies" (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center "Multilingualism" after twelve years of successful research. It presents a panorama of contemporary research in multilingualism covering three fields of investigation: (1) the simultaneous and successive acquisition of more than one language, including language attrition in multilingual settings, (2) historical aspects of multilingualism and variance, and (3) multilingual communication. The papers cover a vast variety of linguistic phenomena including morphology, syntax, segmental and prosodic phonology as well as discourse production and language use, taking both individual and societal aspects of multilingualism into account. The languages addressed include numerous Romance, Slavic and Germanic varieties as well as Welsh, Hungarian, Turkish, and several South African autochthonous languages.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (491 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1283548984, 9781283548984, 9027273499, 9789027273499, 9786613861436, 661386143X
oclc:ocn808670846
LC Classification:P115.45 M75 2012
Dewey Decimal:306.44/6

Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Acknowledgement -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- References -- Part I. How language is acquired and lost in multilingual settings -- Case marking in child L1 and early child L2 German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The German case system -- 2.1 Case forms in German -- 2.2 Structural case vs. lexical case -- 3. The acquisition of case in German -- 3.1 An overview -- 3.2 The study by Eisenbeiss et al. (2006): Case marking by monolingual German children -- 3.3 The criteria used by Eisenbeiss et al. in their analysis of case -- 4. Spontaneous production data from successive bilingual children with L1 Turkish -- 5. Experimental data from monolingual and successive bilingual children -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- First exposure learners make use of top-down lexical knowledge when learning words -- 1. Experience and L1 knowledge in L2 word learning -- 2. Segmenting sound forms, recognizing words and making form-meaning correspondences -- 3. Why study first exposure learners? -- 4. Our studies -- 4.1 Methodology and stimuli -- 4.2 Participants -- 4.3 Results -- 5. Discussi…

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