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Language and Consciousness Revisited. TL BENNETT Papers in Linguistics Edmonton 12:3-43-4, 331-36... more Language and Consciousness Revisited. TL BENNETT Papers in Linguistics Edmonton 12:3-43-4, 331-363, 1979. Rôle de la conscience dans la communication verbale. Psycholinguistique; Esprit; Cerveau; Conscience; Pathologie du langage.
This work describes the manipulation of predication in the narratives of monolingual Irish (Gaeli... more This work describes the manipulation of predication in the narratives of monolingual Irish (Gaelic)-speaking preschool children, and compares the development of nonreferential means of cohesion in a language that is typologically distinct to development in other languages, especially English. The examination presents general data on eight two through five year old children's use of finite and nonfinite verbs, of the complements and modifiers of verbs, and of textual devices to link clauses. Predication and other nonreferential devices function both to propel the narrative forward, and to provide cohesion at the local or global level through temporal, logical, or evaluative means. Four of the children's narratives are examined in greater detail. Despite the typological differences between Irish and many other European languages, predicate development seems to proceed similarly in many respects. The possible exception is the clitic-like copula and its various irregular forms, ...
The VOICE of the CHILD in American Literature MARY JANE HURST ... The VOICE of the CHILD in Ameri... more The VOICE of the CHILD in American Literature MARY JANE HURST ... The VOICE of the CHILD in American Literature Linguistic Approaches to Fictional Child Language MARY JANE HURST The first book-length study of the child figure in American fiction, The Voice of the Child ...
ABSTRACT It is clear that child language research (CLR) is a field of considerable disunity, in t... more ABSTRACT It is clear that child language research (CLR) is a field of considerable disunity, in terms of theory as well as practice, but especially as regards practice. This paper argues that a major source of inconsistency in CLR at the level of data and method is the diverse disciplinary back grounds of its practitioners. The disciplinary orientation of the senior authors of over 150 published research reports in ten different journals between 1970 and 1985 was used as an independent variable in the examination of various methodological practices. Specifically, one can observe a division between linguists and those trained in the humanities on the one hand, and psychologists and those trained in the social sciences on the other hand. Both groups contribute to CLR, but their contributions differ, sometimes radically, in the domain of in quiry, in the methods employed to collect, preserve, and analyse data, and even in the presentation of results.
... LFM Scinto reviews current models of texts and offers definitions of TEXT and COHESION before... more ... LFM Scinto reviews current models of texts and offers definitions of TEXT and COHESION before presenting a model, which for some may be ... The very readable article by Jonathan Fine and Roy Freedle comments on the advantages and disadvantages of six different modes of ...
In the second part of the book, Mannheim discusses in detail several issues in the phonological h... more In the second part of the book, Mannheim discusses in detail several issues in the phonological history of SPQ. All are informed by cultural and historical features of linguistic ecology, and several demonstrate the significant impact of nonregular types of change. One is the clarification of the phonological nature and history of change in SPQ sibilants, an issue that is clouded by changes in the Spanish sibilants during the same period. Of the two major dialects of SPQ, Ayacucho-Chanka Quechua lacks the ejective (glottalized) and aspirate stops found in Cuzco-Collao Quechua. Mannheim presents evidence that glottalization and aspiration are "areal features that entered Southern Quechua as a result of longterm, intimate contact with neighboring languages in the Jaqi/Aru family, including Aymara" (p. 178). Both the process of borrowing these features and the progress of their spread involve cultural understandings and non-regular sound change. Behind the aesthetic leading to borrowing of words with ejectives and aspirates is a cultural "fondness for iconicity" (p. 184), which results in a powerful association of word and object. The feature of glottalization is associated as a "sound image" with "sharpness or violence," while aspiration is associated with "the expulsion of air in the denotata" (p. 187). These features spread along semantic networks of metaphoric association, creating associative sets. The semantic core of the associative sets involving glottalization is smallness and thinness; for aspiration, large size or quantity. The iconicity between smallness and the reduced duration for the acoustic discharge of glottalization, and between large size and the extended discharge of aspiration, reflects the cultural importance of the sound image. The structure of the SPQ word is " [ [ [ [stem]derivation]inflection]discourse-level]" (p. 230). Sound change in SPQ proceeds leftward through the word morpheme by morpheme, beginning at the end. Documentation of this type of sound change shows the impact that non-regular sound change can have.
Page 1. J. Child Lang. 10 (1983), 135-149. Printed in Great Britain Noun phrases and coherence in... more Page 1. J. Child Lang. 10 (1983), 135-149. Printed in Great Britain Noun phrases and coherence in child narratives* TINA BENNETT-KASTOR Wichita State University (Received 10 June 1981) ... The given-new distinction was well preserved, too. ...
... devices are also available and often utilized by speakers and writers (Halliday & Hasan 1... more ... devices are also available and often utilized by speakers and writers (Halliday & Hasan 1976, de Beaugrande & Dressier 1981). ... Address for correspondence: Tina L. Bennett-Kastor, Linguistics Program, Box 14, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67208, USA. 353 12-2 ...
Code-mixing and code-switching are common and well-documented processes in the speech of multilin... more Code-mixing and code-switching are common and well-documented processes in the speech of multilingual persons. Where multilingual persons are also literate in each language, code-mixing is also possible in writing. Despite conservative pressures which tend to deem only one of the languages in a linguistic repertoire the prestige variety, and therefore the primary choice for written expression, multiliterate authors who are able to assume a multiliterate readership may use two or more languages in their texts. Some theories of code-mixing are here summarized, along with a review of code-mixing in spoken Irish. Examination of code-mixing in modern and contemporary Irish literary texts shows that, structurally, written code-mixing is for the most part similar to what is observed in spoken language. Functionally, however, written mixing often has wider aims. Because writing is a planned and conscious form of language, multilingual writers utilize their greater linguistic repertoires strategically by imbuing different languages with different symbolic meanings. A full appreciation of such texts requires an understanding not just of the languages involved, but also of their functions in the cultural environment and the historical, political, and cultural associations with the other languages.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 08351817909370476, May 21, 2009
Language and Consciousness Revisited. TL BENNETT Papers in Linguistics Edmonton 12:3-43-4, 331-36... more Language and Consciousness Revisited. TL BENNETT Papers in Linguistics Edmonton 12:3-43-4, 331-363, 1979. Rôle de la conscience dans la communication verbale. Psycholinguistique; Esprit; Cerveau; Conscience; Pathologie du langage.
This work describes the manipulation of predication in the narratives of monolingual Irish (Gaeli... more This work describes the manipulation of predication in the narratives of monolingual Irish (Gaelic)-speaking preschool children, and compares the development of nonreferential means of cohesion in a language that is typologically distinct to development in other languages, especially English. The examination presents general data on eight two through five year old children's use of finite and nonfinite verbs, of the complements and modifiers of verbs, and of textual devices to link clauses. Predication and other nonreferential devices function both to propel the narrative forward, and to provide cohesion at the local or global level through temporal, logical, or evaluative means. Four of the children's narratives are examined in greater detail. Despite the typological differences between Irish and many other European languages, predicate development seems to proceed similarly in many respects. The possible exception is the clitic-like copula and its various irregular forms, ...
The VOICE of the CHILD in American Literature MARY JANE HURST ... The VOICE of the CHILD in Ameri... more The VOICE of the CHILD in American Literature MARY JANE HURST ... The VOICE of the CHILD in American Literature Linguistic Approaches to Fictional Child Language MARY JANE HURST The first book-length study of the child figure in American fiction, The Voice of the Child ...
ABSTRACT It is clear that child language research (CLR) is a field of considerable disunity, in t... more ABSTRACT It is clear that child language research (CLR) is a field of considerable disunity, in terms of theory as well as practice, but especially as regards practice. This paper argues that a major source of inconsistency in CLR at the level of data and method is the diverse disciplinary back grounds of its practitioners. The disciplinary orientation of the senior authors of over 150 published research reports in ten different journals between 1970 and 1985 was used as an independent variable in the examination of various methodological practices. Specifically, one can observe a division between linguists and those trained in the humanities on the one hand, and psychologists and those trained in the social sciences on the other hand. Both groups contribute to CLR, but their contributions differ, sometimes radically, in the domain of in quiry, in the methods employed to collect, preserve, and analyse data, and even in the presentation of results.
... LFM Scinto reviews current models of texts and offers definitions of TEXT and COHESION before... more ... LFM Scinto reviews current models of texts and offers definitions of TEXT and COHESION before presenting a model, which for some may be ... The very readable article by Jonathan Fine and Roy Freedle comments on the advantages and disadvantages of six different modes of ...
In the second part of the book, Mannheim discusses in detail several issues in the phonological h... more In the second part of the book, Mannheim discusses in detail several issues in the phonological history of SPQ. All are informed by cultural and historical features of linguistic ecology, and several demonstrate the significant impact of nonregular types of change. One is the clarification of the phonological nature and history of change in SPQ sibilants, an issue that is clouded by changes in the Spanish sibilants during the same period. Of the two major dialects of SPQ, Ayacucho-Chanka Quechua lacks the ejective (glottalized) and aspirate stops found in Cuzco-Collao Quechua. Mannheim presents evidence that glottalization and aspiration are "areal features that entered Southern Quechua as a result of longterm, intimate contact with neighboring languages in the Jaqi/Aru family, including Aymara" (p. 178). Both the process of borrowing these features and the progress of their spread involve cultural understandings and non-regular sound change. Behind the aesthetic leading to borrowing of words with ejectives and aspirates is a cultural "fondness for iconicity" (p. 184), which results in a powerful association of word and object. The feature of glottalization is associated as a "sound image" with "sharpness or violence," while aspiration is associated with "the expulsion of air in the denotata" (p. 187). These features spread along semantic networks of metaphoric association, creating associative sets. The semantic core of the associative sets involving glottalization is smallness and thinness; for aspiration, large size or quantity. The iconicity between smallness and the reduced duration for the acoustic discharge of glottalization, and between large size and the extended discharge of aspiration, reflects the cultural importance of the sound image. The structure of the SPQ word is " [ [ [ [stem]derivation]inflection]discourse-level]" (p. 230). Sound change in SPQ proceeds leftward through the word morpheme by morpheme, beginning at the end. Documentation of this type of sound change shows the impact that non-regular sound change can have.
Page 1. J. Child Lang. 10 (1983), 135-149. Printed in Great Britain Noun phrases and coherence in... more Page 1. J. Child Lang. 10 (1983), 135-149. Printed in Great Britain Noun phrases and coherence in child narratives* TINA BENNETT-KASTOR Wichita State University (Received 10 June 1981) ... The given-new distinction was well preserved, too. ...
... devices are also available and often utilized by speakers and writers (Halliday & Hasan 1... more ... devices are also available and often utilized by speakers and writers (Halliday & Hasan 1976, de Beaugrande & Dressier 1981). ... Address for correspondence: Tina L. Bennett-Kastor, Linguistics Program, Box 14, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67208, USA. 353 12-2 ...
Code-mixing and code-switching are common and well-documented processes in the speech of multilin... more Code-mixing and code-switching are common and well-documented processes in the speech of multilingual persons. Where multilingual persons are also literate in each language, code-mixing is also possible in writing. Despite conservative pressures which tend to deem only one of the languages in a linguistic repertoire the prestige variety, and therefore the primary choice for written expression, multiliterate authors who are able to assume a multiliterate readership may use two or more languages in their texts. Some theories of code-mixing are here summarized, along with a review of code-mixing in spoken Irish. Examination of code-mixing in modern and contemporary Irish literary texts shows that, structurally, written code-mixing is for the most part similar to what is observed in spoken language. Functionally, however, written mixing often has wider aims. Because writing is a planned and conscious form of language, multilingual writers utilize their greater linguistic repertoires strategically by imbuing different languages with different symbolic meanings. A full appreciation of such texts requires an understanding not just of the languages involved, but also of their functions in the cultural environment and the historical, political, and cultural associations with the other languages.
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