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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kania, Ursula

Titel

The acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English : a corpus-study from a usage-based perspective

Ist Teil von

• Language development : 36 (Alle Bände)

Auflage

1. Auflage

Ort / Verlag

Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto

Erscheinungsjahr

[2016]

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of the BNC and a high-density, longitudinal CHILDES corpus, the book explores two issues which have largely been neglected in previous research: 1. the prevalence of non-canonical questions (such as elliptical and declarative questions) in adult-to-adult as well as child(-directed) speech and the L1-acquisition of these structures. 2. The discourse-functional properties of both canonical and non-canonical yes-no questions, especially with regard to their influence on the acquisition process. Overall, the studies presented in this book show how non-canonical constructions and the discourse-functional properties of linguistic structures may be integrated into a usage-based, constructivist account of language acquisition and use in order to arrive at a better understanding of the observed patterns.
• This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of the BNC and a high-density, longitudinal CHILDES corpus, the book explores two issues which have largely been neglected in previous research: 1. the prevalence of non-canonical questions (such as elliptical and declarative questions) in adult-to-adult as well as child(-directed) speech and the L1-acquisition of these structures. 2. The discourse-functional properties of both canonical and non-canonical yes-no questions, especially with regard to their influence on the acquisition process. Overall, the studies presented in this book show how non-canonical constructions and the discourse-functional properties of linguistic structures may be integrated into a usage-based, constructivist account of language acquisition and use in order to arrive at a better understanding of the observed patterns