Richard M Weist
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1453216 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard M Weist |
| NOMBRES | Richard M |
| APELLIDO | Weist |
| FIRMA | WEIST R M |
| AFILIACIONES | SUNY Fredonia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Semantic Theory versus Semantic “Lumping”
The crosslinguistic investigation of child language has revealed the frequent co-occurrence of certain values of Aktionsart, aspect and tense. Specifically, dynamic-atelic predicates are likely to be observed with unbounded values of aspect in the non-past tense and dynamic-telic predicates with bounded aspect and past tense morphology. This observation has motivated theories of language acquisition that incorporate the semantic structure of pred…
Finiteness systems and lexical aspect in child Polish and English
The purpose of this research was to discover how the aspectual properties of predicate structure influence the acquisition of agreement and tense morphology in Polish and English. We investigated the corpora of six children learning each language by tracking the emergence of their verb morphology within a set of predicates in each of three categories, i.e., stative, dynamic-atelic, and dynamic-telic. We used contrast as a measure of acquisition, …
Reference time in child English and Polish
The purpose of this research was to investigate the manner in which reference time becomes integrated into the child's emerging systems of temporal reference. The longitudinal data from six children learning English and six children learning Polish were analyzed within the period from about 1;6 to 5;0. The temporal reference within an event time and a reference time system was evaluated. Regarding reference time constructions, we traced the acqui…
Syntactic–semantic interface in the acquisition of verb morphology
The purpose of this research was to show how the syntactic and semantic components of the tense–aspect system interact during the acquisition process. Our methodology involved: (1) identifying predicates, (2) finding the initial occurrence of their tense–aspect morphology, and (3) observing the emergence of contrasts. Six children learning Polish and six children learning English, found in the CHILDES archives, were investigated. The average star…
P ING L I & Y Asuhiro S Hirai , Y., The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect . Berlin
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The Acquisition of Simple and Complex Spatial Locatives in English
The emergence of simple and complex spatial locatives was investigated in six children learning English obtained from the CHILDES archives. We traced the emergence of 13 locative prepositions from the average age of 1;10 to 4;2. The locatives were as follows: (1) simple, in, on, into, onto, out of, off of, and (2) complex, across, along, around, through, deictic front, deictic back/behind, between. We determined the age of the initial occurrence …
Temporal and Spatial Concepts in Child Language
The purpose of this research was to study the temporal and spatial systems of child language. Configurational time/space refers to the location of events/objects relative to referent events/objects (e.g., before/after or across/along) and conventional time/space refers to the specification of cycles/directions and the measurement of duration/distance (e.g., winter/fall or North/South). The research was designed to determine how configurational an…
Spatial and temporal systems in child language and thought
This research was designed to evaluate the interaction of conceptual and linguistic factors during the acquisition of the spatial and temporal systems of Polish, English and Finnish from 3 to 6 years of age. In the conceptual-spatial task, children reconstructed a layout from a 180-degree change in perspective, and in the conceptual-temporal task they arranged three picture cards in a sequence while telling a story. In the linguistic domain, ther…
The interaction of language and thought in children's language acquisition
The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential interaction of conceptual representations and linguistic systems in the process of language acquisition. Language–thought interactions were studied in 80 American, 48 Finnish and 48 Polish preschool children. The research focused on the conceptual and linguistic development of space and time. The spatial and temporal conceptual tasks were designed to measure the transition from experie…
A cross-linguistic perspective on the development of temporal systems
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the development of temporal location within a cross-linguistic experimental design. The research focused on the transition from a temporal system based on absolute temporal relations involving speech time and event time to a more complex system involving relative temporal relationships and reference time. A comprehension test was constructed with problems which were diagnostic of two salient distinctio…
Spatial and temporal location in child language
The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between the development of spatial and temporal location. The research was based on the distinction between mono-referential and bi-referential location, where mono-referential location involves the relationship between an object/event to-be-located and a single reference object/time with intrinsic spatial/temporal properties, and bi-referential location requires a projective/sequenti…
The Effects of Formal Instruction on the Second-Language Acquisition of Temporal Location
The purpose of this research was to contrast the acquisition of temporal systems in L1 and tutored L2 learners. The research focused on the distinction between absolute and relative temporal location: the former relates event time to speech time and the latter relates event time to reference time. An experiment was conducted using a sentence-picture matching task with Polish adults learning English and American children ranging in age from 21⁄2 t…
Neutralization and the concept of subject in child Polish
D. I. Slobin, Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity and Bowerman, M., What shapes children's grammars? Reviewed by S. Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, U…
D. I. Slobin, Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity and Bowerman, M., What shapes children's grammars? Reviewed by S. Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA. - Volume 16 Issue 2
Aspects of the roots of language
On the temporal contour of child language
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The emergence of temporal adverbs in child Polish
This research was conducted to determine how temporal adverbs become integrated into evolving temporal systems. During the period from 2;4 to 3;2, the utterances of three Polish children which contained temporal adverbs were classified as specifying reference time prior to, simultaneous with, or subsequent to speech time. This relationship between reference time and speech time was found either to contradict or to correspond to the relationship e…
Tense and aspect
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Basic Relations in Child Language and the Word Order Myth
The research involved an evaluation of the psychological reality of the syntactic functions of subject and object, the semantic functions of agent and patient, and the discourse functions of given and new. The domain of analysis was from the early two‐word into the early three‐word phase (approximately 1;7 to 2;5) of the acquisition of the relatively synthetic language of Polish. An analysis of the inflectional morphology revealed the appropriate…
Affix processing strategies and linguistic systems
The relationship between affix processing and linguistic systems was evaluated through an analysis of prefixation and suffixation in the tense-aspect and locative systems of child Polish. For six children ranging in age from 1; 7 to 2; 6, the distinction between imperfective and perfective aspect was made more frequently by prefixation than by suffixation. Prefixation was found to be just as productive in the specification of locative distinction…
The defective tense hypothesis
Longitudinal and cross-sectional designs were combined in this analysis of the evolution of children's capacity to represent deictic relationships. The longitudinal component contained the naturalistic observation of three relatively young children (1; 7–1; 9) and three somewhat older children (2; 0–2; 2). These children were tape-recorded in caretaker–child interactions. The analysis of the corpora from these children revealed: (1) imperfective …
Prefix versus suffix information processing in the comprehension of tense and aspect
This research evaluated the Polish child's capacity to comprehend aspect and tense distinctions realized by either prefixation or suffixation. Ten 2; 6 and ten 3; 6 children were given a picture–sentence matching task. Aspect picture sets contrasted completed with incompleted situations and sentences contrasted perfective with imperfective verbs differing by a prefix or a suffix. Tense picture sets portrayed either ongoing vs. anticipated action …
The word order myth
The purpose of this research was to investigate the function of word order, inflections and discourse context in the sentence comprehension process. Ten 2; 6 and ten 3; 6 Polish children acted out sentences with toys. The target sentences were either inflected or uninflected, and given inflectional information sentences were ordered SVO or OVS. Context sentences established given information which was in initial or final position in the target se…
Parent and sibling comprehension of children's speech
Rehearsal and List Structure
During the input phases of a multitrial free recall experiment, Ss were either free to rehearse or required to write the to-be-remembered words as they were presented. Under these input conditions, Ss learned 24-word lists which varied in structure. The lists contained either 2, 4, or 12 categories. The writing procedure caused a decrement in recall in the 2- and 12-category conditions. Hence, restriction of rehearsal was only effective when the …
Finiteness systems and lexical aspect in child Polish and English
The purpose of this research was to discover how the aspectual properties of predicate structure influence the acquisition of agreement and tense morphology in Polish and English. We investigated the corpora of six children learning each language by tracking the emergence of their verb morphology within a set of predicates in each of three categories, i.e., stative, dynamic-atelic, and dynamic-telic. We used contrast as a measure of acquisition, …
Temporal and Spatial Concepts in Child Language
The purpose of this research was to study the temporal and spatial systems of child language. Configurational time/space refers to the location of events/objects relative to referent events/objects (e.g., before/after or across/along) and conventional time/space refers to the specification of cycles/directions and the measurement of duration/distance (e.g., winter/fall or North/South). The research was designed to determine how configurational an…
The Effects of Formal Instruction on the Second-Language Acquisition of Temporal Location
The purpose of this research was to contrast the acquisition of temporal systems in L1 and tutored L2 learners. The research focused on the distinction between absolute and relative temporal location: the former relates event time to speech time and the latter relates event time to reference time. An experiment was conducted using a sentence-picture matching task with Polish adults learning English and American children ranging in age from 21⁄2 t…
Basic Relations in Child Language and the Word Order Myth
The research involved an evaluation of the psychological reality of the syntactic functions of subject and object, the semantic functions of agent and patient, and the discourse functions of given and new. The domain of analysis was from the early two‐word into the early three‐word phase (approximately 1;7 to 2;5) of the acquisition of the relatively synthetic language of Polish. An analysis of the inflectional morphology revealed the appropriate…
Parent and sibling comprehension of children's speech
Effectiveness of Retrieval Cues and the Issue of Independent vs Dependent Storage
The purpose of this experiment was to show that an understanding of retrieval cue effectiveness is basic to the controversy on dependent versus independent storage. Ss were tested in one of 4 conditions. The stimulus lists contained sets of asscciatively related words or unrelated words, and recall was either free or cued. The resulting interaction of list types and recall conditions indicated that, when experimental conditions result in effectiv…
Rehearsal and List Structure
During the input phases of a multitrial free recall experiment, Ss were either free to rehearse or required to write the to-be-remembered words as they were presented. Under these input conditions, Ss learned 24-word lists which varied in structure. The lists contained either 2, 4, or 12 categories. The writing procedure caused a decrement in recall in the 2- and 12-category conditions. Hence, restriction of rehearsal was only effective when the …
Parent and sibling comprehension of children's speech
Prefix versus suffix information processing in the comprehension of tense and aspect
This research evaluated the Polish child's capacity to comprehend aspect and tense distinctions realized by either prefixation or suffixation. Ten 2; 6 and ten 3; 6 children were given a picture–sentence matching task. Aspect picture sets contrasted completed with incompleted situations and sentences contrasted perfective with imperfective verbs differing by a prefix or a suffix. Tense picture sets portrayed either ongoing vs. anticipated action …
The word order myth
The purpose of this research was to investigate the function of word order, inflections and discourse context in the sentence comprehension process. Ten 2; 6 and ten 3; 6 Polish children acted out sentences with toys. The target sentences were either inflected or uninflected, and given inflectional information sentences were ordered SVO or OVS. Context sentences established given information which was in initial or final position in the target se…
The defective tense hypothesis
Longitudinal and cross-sectional designs were combined in this analysis of the evolution of children's capacity to represent deictic relationships. The longitudinal component contained the naturalistic observation of three relatively young children (1; 7–1; 9) and three somewhat older children (2; 0–2; 2). These children were tape-recorded in caretaker–child interactions. The analysis of the corpora from these children revealed: (1) imperfective …
Affix processing strategies and linguistic systems
The relationship between affix processing and linguistic systems was evaluated through an analysis of prefixation and suffixation in the tense-aspect and locative systems of child Polish. For six children ranging in age from 1; 7 to 2; 6, the distinction between imperfective and perfective aspect was made more frequently by prefixation than by suffixation. Prefixation was found to be just as productive in the specification of locative distinction…
Tense and aspect
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Basic Relations in Child Language and the Word Order Myth
The research involved an evaluation of the psychological reality of the syntactic functions of subject and object, the semantic functions of agent and patient, and the discourse functions of given and new. The domain of analysis was from the early two‐word into the early three‐word phase (approximately 1;7 to 2;5) of the acquisition of the relatively synthetic language of Polish. An analysis of the inflectional morphology revealed the appropriate…
On the temporal contour of child language
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The emergence of temporal adverbs in child Polish
This research was conducted to determine how temporal adverbs become integrated into evolving temporal systems. During the period from 2;4 to 3;2, the utterances of three Polish children which contained temporal adverbs were classified as specifying reference time prior to, simultaneous with, or subsequent to speech time. This relationship between reference time and speech time was found either to contradict or to correspond to the relationship e…
D. I. Slobin, Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity and Bowerman, M., What shapes children's grammars? Reviewed by S. Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, U…
D. I. Slobin, Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity and Bowerman, M., What shapes children's grammars? Reviewed by S. Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA. - Volume 16 Issue 2
Aspects of the roots of language
Neutralization and the concept of subject in child Polish
A cross-linguistic perspective on the development of temporal systems
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the development of temporal location within a cross-linguistic experimental design. The research focused on the transition from a temporal system based on absolute temporal relations involving speech time and event time to a more complex system involving relative temporal relationships and reference time. A comprehension test was constructed with problems which were diagnostic of two salient distinctio…
Spatial and temporal location in child language
The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between the development of spatial and temporal location. The research was based on the distinction between mono-referential and bi-referential location, where mono-referential location involves the relationship between an object/event to-be-located and a single reference object/time with intrinsic spatial/temporal properties, and bi-referential location requires a projective/sequenti…
The Effects of Formal Instruction on the Second-Language Acquisition of Temporal Location
The purpose of this research was to contrast the acquisition of temporal systems in L1 and tutored L2 learners. The research focused on the distinction between absolute and relative temporal location: the former relates event time to speech time and the latter relates event time to reference time. An experiment was conducted using a sentence-picture matching task with Polish adults learning English and American children ranging in age from 21⁄2 t…
The interaction of language and thought in children's language acquisition
The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential interaction of conceptual representations and linguistic systems in the process of language acquisition. Language–thought interactions were studied in 80 American, 48 Finnish and 48 Polish preschool children. The research focused on the conceptual and linguistic development of space and time. The spatial and temporal conceptual tasks were designed to measure the transition from experie…
Spatial and temporal systems in child language and thought
This research was designed to evaluate the interaction of conceptual and linguistic factors during the acquisition of the spatial and temporal systems of Polish, English and Finnish from 3 to 6 years of age. In the conceptual-spatial task, children reconstructed a layout from a 180-degree change in perspective, and in the conceptual-temporal task they arranged three picture cards in a sequence while telling a story. In the linguistic domain, ther…
Temporal and Spatial Concepts in Child Language
The purpose of this research was to study the temporal and spatial systems of child language. Configurational time/space refers to the location of events/objects relative to referent events/objects (e.g., before/after or across/along) and conventional time/space refers to the specification of cycles/directions and the measurement of duration/distance (e.g., winter/fall or North/South). The research was designed to determine how configurational an…
P ING L I & Y Asuhiro S Hirai , Y., The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect . Berlin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Acquisition of Simple and Complex Spatial Locatives in English
The emergence of simple and complex spatial locatives was investigated in six children learning English obtained from the CHILDES archives. We traced the emergence of 13 locative prepositions from the average age of 1;10 to 4;2. The locatives were as follows: (1) simple, in, on, into, onto, out of, off of, and (2) complex, across, along, around, through, deictic front, deictic back/behind, between. We determined the age of the initial occurrence …
Syntactic–semantic interface in the acquisition of verb morphology
The purpose of this research was to show how the syntactic and semantic components of the tense–aspect system interact during the acquisition process. Our methodology involved: (1) identifying predicates, (2) finding the initial occurrence of their tense–aspect morphology, and (3) observing the emergence of contrasts. Six children learning Polish and six children learning English, found in the CHILDES archives, were investigated. The average star…
Reference time in child English and Polish
The purpose of this research was to investigate the manner in which reference time becomes integrated into the child's emerging systems of temporal reference. The longitudinal data from six children learning English and six children learning Polish were analyzed within the period from about 1;6 to 5;0. The temporal reference within an event time and a reference time system was evaluated. Regarding reference time constructions, we traced the acqui…
Finiteness systems and lexical aspect in child Polish and English
The purpose of this research was to discover how the aspectual properties of predicate structure influence the acquisition of agreement and tense morphology in Polish and English. We investigated the corpora of six children learning each language by tracking the emergence of their verb morphology within a set of predicates in each of three categories, i.e., stative, dynamic-atelic, and dynamic-telic. We used contrast as a measure of acquisition, …
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