Research Methods in Language Acquisition

Principles, Procedures, and Practices

Barbara Lust, Maria Blume (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 313 Seiten

2016
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-041522-3 (ISBN)

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Language acquisition research is challenging—the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. The audible components of speech, however, are quantifiable and thus provide crucial data. This practical guide synthesizes the authors’ decades of experience into a comprehensive set of tools that will allow students and early career researchers in the field to design and conduct rigorous studies that produce reliable and valid speech data and interpretations. The authors thoroughly review specific techniques for obtaining qualitative and quantitative speech data, including how to tailor the testing environments for optimal results. They explore observational tasks for collecting natural speech and experimental tasks for eliciting specific types of speech. Language comprehension tasks are also reviewed so researchers can study participants’ interpretations of speech and conceptualizations of grammar. Most tasks are oriented towards children, but special considerations for infants are also reviewed, as well as multilingual children. Chapters also provide strategies for transcribing and coding raw speech data into reliable data sets that can be scientifically analyzed. Furthermore, they investigate the intricacies of interpretation so that researchers can make empirically sound inferences from their data and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to unscientific conclusions.

Barbara Lust, Cornell University, USA; Maria Blume, University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Language and the Human Lifespan (LHLS)
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Cognitive linguistics • Language acquisition • language comprehension
ISBN-10	3-11-041522-4 / 3110415224
ISBN-13	978-3-11-041522-3 / 9783110415223
Zustand	Neuware