Susan Foster‐Cohen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6362153 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Foster‐Cohen |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Foster‐Cohen |
| FIRMA | COHEN S F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9309-5728 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Relevance Theory and Language Acquisition
Relevance Theory argues that comprehension of intentional communication rests on the hearer's capacity to infer the speaker's message from what has been expressed in context, guided by the search for relevance. Hearers follow a path of least effort, given their knowledge and beliefs about the world and the speaker. The theory has provided explanations for how and why L1 learners both interpret and misinterpret utterances, depending on their stage…
The roles of language use and vocabulary size in the emergence of word-combining in children with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities
Parent report data on 82 preschool children with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities including Down syndrome, dyspraxia, autism, and global developmental delay suggests communicative language use must reach a threshold level before vocabulary size becomes the best predictor of word combining. Using the Language Use Inventory and the MacArthur-Bates CDI (with sign vocabulary option), statistical modelling using regression trees and random fore…
Relevance Theory and Second Language Acquisition
Relevance theory (RT) is an account of how hearers interpret (and by implication how speakers design) verbal and nonverbal communications. The roots of RT are in Grice's account of the pragmatics of utterance interpretation; but whereas Grice argues for a cooperative principle that forms a compact between speakers and hearers and four maxims that drive speakers' message design (quantity, quality, relation, and manner), RT argues there is no need …
Early delayed language development in very preterm infants
This study examined the effects of being born very preterm on children's early language development using prospective longitudinal data from a representative regional cohort of 90 children born very preterm (gestational age
Relevance Theory and second language learning/behaviour
Exploring the relationships between theories of second language acquisition and Relevance Theory
This article explores a number of points at which Relevance Theory makes a useful contribution to second language theoretical models, specifically those of Bialystok and Schmidt and their respective notions of ‘analysis’, ‘control’ and ‘noticing’.It is suggested that the inferential mechanisms of Relevance Theory can account for the contingencies of communicative interaction without which pragmatic negotiations do not make sense, and thus can com…
Relevance Theory, Action Theory and second language communication strategies
The discussion in this article offers a comparison between Relevance Theory as an account of human communication and Herbert Clark’s (1996)sociocognitive Action Theory approach. It is argued that the differences are fundamental and impact analysis of all kinds of naturally occurring communicative data, including that produced by non-native speakers. The differences are discussed and illustrated with data from second language communication strateg…
First language acquisition… second language acquisition
Second language (L2) research appeals to first language acquisition research frequently and standardly. It is important, however, to take stock from time to time of the uses that second language acquisition (SLA) makes of its sister field. Whether we use first language (L1) research to generate or bolster the importance of a particular research question, to argue for a fundamental similarity or a fundamental difference between the two sorts of ac…
Pragmatics
This six-volume, beautifully bound, boxed set contains 112 reprinted papers covering the history and development of modern theoretical pragmatics from its beginnings back in the 1940s and '50s with Charles Morris, Rudolf Camap, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, via the major works in the 1970s of those such as Stalnaker, Bach and Hamish, J. L. Austin, John Searle, and Paul Grice, to the more recent contributions of, among many others, Dan Sperber and Deirdre …
Modularity and Principles and Parameters
This paper provides an overview of some of the advantages of the Principles and Parameters approach to language acquisition research, and suggests that modularity is a particularly helpful feature of this approach. It argues that serious attention to modularity clarifies research thinking, encouraging us to examine the boundaries between modules in constructive ways. Particular attention is paid to the boundary between syntax and pragmatics as il…
Other Children, Other Languages
Exploring the boundary between syntax and pragmatics
This paper explores the interface between syntax and pragmatics, focusing on the binding of pronouns and the pragmatics of the paradigms used to test this aspect of syntactic knowledge. Reinhart's (1986) version of Binding Theory (which accords a specific role to pragmatics in processes of pronoun resolution) and Sperber & Wilson's (1986) Theory of Relevance are used to examine the syntax and pragmatics of pronoun interpretation. A set of predict…
Directions of influence in first and second language acquisition research
This article explores ways in which studies in second language acquisition (SLA) research can illuminate first language acquisition research. The discussion revolves around the issues of learner strategies, individual variation, the acquisition of late learned structures, bilingualism, the role of Universal Grammar (UG) and the fate of obsolete knowledge in acquisition. It is argued that second language research in these (and other) areas can pro…
Exploring the relationships between theories of second language acquisition and Relevance Theory
This article explores a number of points at which Relevance Theory makes a useful contribution to second language theoretical models, specifically those of Bialystok and Schmidt and their respective notions of ‘analysis’, ‘control’ and ‘noticing’.It is suggested that the inferential mechanisms of Relevance Theory can account for the contingencies of communicative interaction without which pragmatic negotiations do not make sense, and thus can com…
Relevance Theory, Action Theory and second language communication strategies
The discussion in this article offers a comparison between Relevance Theory as an account of human communication and Herbert Clark’s (1996)sociocognitive Action Theory approach. It is argued that the differences are fundamental and impact analysis of all kinds of naturally occurring communicative data, including that produced by non-native speakers. The differences are discussed and illustrated with data from second language communication strateg…
Directions of influence in first and second language acquisition research
This article explores ways in which studies in second language acquisition (SLA) research can illuminate first language acquisition research. The discussion revolves around the issues of learner strategies, individual variation, the acquisition of late learned structures, bilingualism, the role of Universal Grammar (UG) and the fate of obsolete knowledge in acquisition. It is argued that second language research in these (and other) areas can pro…
Relevance Theory and second language learning/behaviour
Pragmatics
This six-volume, beautifully bound, boxed set contains 112 reprinted papers covering the history and development of modern theoretical pragmatics from its beginnings back in the 1940s and '50s with Charles Morris, Rudolf Camap, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, via the major works in the 1970s of those such as Stalnaker, Bach and Hamish, J. L. Austin, John Searle, and Paul Grice, to the more recent contributions of, among many others, Dan Sperber and Deirdre …
Directions of influence in first and second language acquisition research
This article explores ways in which studies in second language acquisition (SLA) research can illuminate first language acquisition research. The discussion revolves around the issues of learner strategies, individual variation, the acquisition of late learned structures, bilingualism, the role of Universal Grammar (UG) and the fate of obsolete knowledge in acquisition. It is argued that second language research in these (and other) areas can pro…
Exploring the boundary between syntax and pragmatics
This paper explores the interface between syntax and pragmatics, focusing on the binding of pronouns and the pragmatics of the paradigms used to test this aspect of syntactic knowledge. Reinhart's (1986) version of Binding Theory (which accords a specific role to pragmatics in processes of pronoun resolution) and Sperber & Wilson's (1986) Theory of Relevance are used to examine the syntax and pragmatics of pronoun interpretation. A set of predict…
Other Children, Other Languages
Modularity and Principles and Parameters
This paper provides an overview of some of the advantages of the Principles and Parameters approach to language acquisition research, and suggests that modularity is a particularly helpful feature of this approach. It argues that serious attention to modularity clarifies research thinking, encouraging us to examine the boundaries between modules in constructive ways. Particular attention is paid to the boundary between syntax and pragmatics as il…
Pragmatics
This six-volume, beautifully bound, boxed set contains 112 reprinted papers covering the history and development of modern theoretical pragmatics from its beginnings back in the 1940s and '50s with Charles Morris, Rudolf Camap, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, via the major works in the 1970s of those such as Stalnaker, Bach and Hamish, J. L. Austin, John Searle, and Paul Grice, to the more recent contributions of, among many others, Dan Sperber and Deirdre …
First language acquisition… second language acquisition
Second language (L2) research appeals to first language acquisition research frequently and standardly. It is important, however, to take stock from time to time of the uses that second language acquisition (SLA) makes of its sister field. Whether we use first language (L1) research to generate or bolster the importance of a particular research question, to argue for a fundamental similarity or a fundamental difference between the two sorts of ac…
Relevance Theory and second language learning/behaviour
Exploring the relationships between theories of second language acquisition and Relevance Theory
This article explores a number of points at which Relevance Theory makes a useful contribution to second language theoretical models, specifically those of Bialystok and Schmidt and their respective notions of ‘analysis’, ‘control’ and ‘noticing’.It is suggested that the inferential mechanisms of Relevance Theory can account for the contingencies of communicative interaction without which pragmatic negotiations do not make sense, and thus can com…
Relevance Theory, Action Theory and second language communication strategies
The discussion in this article offers a comparison between Relevance Theory as an account of human communication and Herbert Clark’s (1996)sociocognitive Action Theory approach. It is argued that the differences are fundamental and impact analysis of all kinds of naturally occurring communicative data, including that produced by non-native speakers. The differences are discussed and illustrated with data from second language communication strateg…
Early delayed language development in very preterm infants
This study examined the effects of being born very preterm on children's early language development using prospective longitudinal data from a representative regional cohort of 90 children born very preterm (gestational age
Relevance Theory and Second Language Acquisition
Relevance theory (RT) is an account of how hearers interpret (and by implication how speakers design) verbal and nonverbal communications. The roots of RT are in Grice's account of the pragmatics of utterance interpretation; but whereas Grice argues for a cooperative principle that forms a compact between speakers and hearers and four maxims that drive speakers' message design (quantity, quality, relation, and manner), RT argues there is no need …
The roles of language use and vocabulary size in the emergence of word-combining in children with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities
Parent report data on 82 preschool children with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities including Down syndrome, dyspraxia, autism, and global developmental delay suggests communicative language use must reach a threshold level before vocabulary size becomes the best predictor of word combining. Using the Language Use Inventory and the MacArthur-Bates CDI (with sign vocabulary option), statistical modelling using regression trees and random fore…
Relevance Theory and Language Acquisition
Relevance Theory argues that comprehension of intentional communication rests on the hearer's capacity to infer the speaker's message from what has been expressed in context, guided by the search for relevance. Hearers follow a path of least effort, given their knowledge and beliefs about the world and the speaker. The theory has provided explanations for how and why L1 learners both interpret and misinterpret utterances, depending on their stage…
Psychology (12 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Cognition (6 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (6 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 obras) · Relevance theory (6 obras) · Cognitive science (5 obras) · Language acquisition (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)