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1. 1. Las secuencias formulaicas en la adquisición de español L2

   Författare :Inmaculada Moreno Teva; Fant Lars; Bartning Inge; Carmen López Ferrero; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; activity type; discourse competence; evolutionary study; multi-word structures; individual differences; Spanish L2 acquisition; studying abroad effect; task variation; Spanish; spanska;

   Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this study is to observe the L2 acquisition effect of studying abroad during approximately four months in Swedish non-native speakers (NNSs) of Spanish with respect to their use of multi-word structures (MWSs) as compared to native speakers (NSs). In addition, this evolutionary study has a secondary aim which is to see the effect of the activity type on the amount and distribution of the MWSs encountered. LÄS MER

3. 2. Mastering the question : the acquisition of interrogative clauses by Finnish-speaking children

   Författare :Raija Kangassalo; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finnish; child language development; acquisition; interrogative clause; wh-questions; yes no- questions; disjunctive questions; wh-question word; interrogative particle; discourse function;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to chart the development of interrogative syntax among Finnish-speaking children between the ages of 1 to 4 years living in Sweden. The material consists of language samples taken from eleven Sweden-Finnish children with Finnish as their first language. LÄS MER

4. 3. The acquisition of nominal compounding in Swedish

   Författare :Ingmarie Mellenius; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; nominal compounds; modifier; head; liaison form; language acquisition; conceptual combination; compounding; word formation; Swedish; child language; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : In Swedish, as in other North Germanic languages, compounds are very common and a majority of the novel words in Swedish are compounds. This thesis aims at a presentation of compounding in Swedish and the problems involved in describing compounding, but mainly at an empirically founded description of children's creation and use of novel compounds and developing comprehension of compounds, especially nominal compounds. LÄS MER

5. 4. Snakes and Ladders : Developmental Aspects of Lexical-Conceptual Relationships in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon

   Författare :Lari-Valtteri Suhonen; Språkinlärning; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; third language acquisition; cross-linguistic influence; mental lexicon; multilingualism; psychotypology; L3; attrition; second language acquisition; SLA; TLA; transfer; concept; cognitive control; working memory; CLI; multidirectional; multilingual mental lexicon; MML; acquisition; learning; translation ambiguity; introspection; longitudinal;

   Sammanfattning : One phenomenon causing issues for language learners in the form of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) is translation ambiguity (Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013). Translation ambiguity refers to a situation where word meanings are different in a speaker’s languages. LÄS MER

7. 5. Emergence of words : Multisensory precursors of sound-meaning associations in infancy

   Författare :Eeva Klintfors; Francisco Lacerda; Daniel Swingley; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language acquisition; word acquisition; auditory-visual; multisensory; sound-meaning association; distributional learning; perceptual salience; infancy; språkinlärning; ordinlärning; audio-visuell; multisensorisk; förbindelser mellan ljud och betydelse; distributionell inlärning; perceptuell prominens; spädbarn; Phonetics; Fonetik; Phonetics; fonetik;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis presents four experimental studies, carried out at the Phonetic laboratory, Stockholm University, on infants’ ability to establish auditory-visual sound-meaning associations as a precursor of early word acquisition. Study I reports on the effect of linguistic variance on infants’ ability (3- to 20-months) to establish sound-meaning associations. LÄS MER