Barbara Lust
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 747650 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara Lust |
| NOMBRES | Barbara |
| APELLIDO | Lust |
| FIRMA | LUST B |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7923-7937 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Effects of SES on Executive Attention in Malay–English bilingual children in Singapore – Addendum
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From lexical to functional categories
Scholars of language development have long been challenged to understand the development of functional categories. Traditionally, it was assumed that children’s language development initially relies on lexical elements, while functional elements become accessible only at later periods; and that it is lexical growth which bootstraps grammatical development. Over the last decades, however, a growing body of empirical research has come to contradict…
Simultaneous vs. successive bilingualism among preschool-aged children
The current study compares simultaneous vs. successive bilingualism through a mixed-method research design with four four-year-old Korean–English bilingual children who were born and raised in the USA. Two simultaneous bilinguals were exposed to Korean and English from birth, whereas two successive bilinguals were exposed to Korean from birth, but to English between 18 and 24 months. Three direct assessment tasks (i.e. narrative, vocabulary, and …
Assessing child bilingualism
Aims and objectives: In this paper we investigate measures for the evaluation of a child’s bilingualism. Methodology: We compare a caretaker report on the estimated quantity and quality of a child’s bilingualism to results from direct assessment of the bilingual child’s production of complex sentences in Korean and English. We adopt an integrated methodology in which two case studies, closely matched on caretaker report and general background, ar…
Facing Plato's cave
C&T deserve credit for their concern for attaining empirical evidence, in particular evidence from language acquisition, for linguistic theory. They also deserve credit for bringing to the attention of the linguistic community the fact that variations in methodology do indeed produce variations in child behaviours, a fact well appreciated in behavioural sciences such as psychology, but often not fully appreciated outside of it; in particular, not…
Chinese Children's Comprehension of Count-Classifiers and Mass-Classifiers
Knowledge of Variable Binding in VP–Ellipsis
In this paper, we relate results from recent experimental study of young children's (3;0–7;11) comprehension of coordinate VP–ellipsis structures in English to a new theoretical proposal regarding their representation. Historically, theoretical treatments of these structures have been challenged by the nature of the ambiguity they involve, which includes both a “sloppy” interpretation (represented in terms of a bound variable) and a “strict” inte…
Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages
Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions
This paper examines two- to five-year-old children's knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that grammatical competence for inversion is present from the earliest testable ages of the child's sentence production. The experimental design is based on the premise that a valid test of this hypoth…
Requirements for paradigm shift
Since Noam Chomsky's famous 1959 review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior , a linguistically based paradigm for research in first language acquisition has been strong, even in some senses, dominant. Even Piaget, whose main concern was the nature of cognitive development in general, did not deny the essential claim of a linguistically based paradigm for the study of language acquisition: ‘I (Piaget) also agree with him (Chomsky) on the fact that …
Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition
Chinese pronominals in universal grammar
The Binding Theory Module
This paper offers a critical review of a series of experimental studies of first-language acquisition of anaphora. These studies provide converging evidence that children acquiring English respect Principle C of the Binding Theory—specifically, a form of Principle C in which an r-expression is pronoun free. Principle C is respected continuously across overt syntax development (from 3 to 7 years). Although knowledge of Principle C interacts signif…
On the acquisition of syntax in Tamil
Garman (1974), reporting on twenty Tamil children aged three to five, postulated a linguistic strategy and two prelinguistic strategies to explain the results of a question-picture choice task involving sentences with embedded and subordinate clauses. In a reanalysis of his data, we identify four processing strategies and show that some of Garman's findings are better explained not as the outcome of prelinguistic strategies but as an artefact of …
In Defense of Parameter‐Setting in L2 Acquisition
Bley‐Vroman and Chaudron (BV/C) (1990) challenge the theoretical and empirical validity of the results in Flynn (1983, 1987) and propose an alternative explanation of the reported results. In doing so, BV/C attempt to impugn the role of Universal Grammar (UG), particularly Parameter (P)‐setting, in L2 acquisition. In this paper, we demonstrate that BV/C's remarks are based on (1) failure to consider the theoretical and logical basis of the resear…
Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition
Elsewhere we have argued on the basis of cross linguistic studies of directionality effects on anaphora in child language, that there is no universal ‘forward directionality preference (FDP)’; rather such a preference is linked to languages with specific grammatical properties. Although such a preference has been attested in English acquisition, matched experimental designs in Japanese, Chinese and Sinhalese, for example, do not show this effect.…
Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, I
Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora
Coordinating studies of coordination
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Development of coordination in the natural speech of young children
Natural speech of 32 young children from 2; 0 to 3; 1 (1·97 to 6·38 in MLU) was studied for evidence of use of coordination (by and ). Analyses of the structure of coordinative expressions reflected development in structural variants as well as amount of coordination. Analyses suggested that early forms of coordination in natural speech reflected the same constraints which had been suggested by previous study of these children's language through …
Conjunction reduction in child language
Coordinate conjunction was evaluated in early child language with regard to its structural properties. In a series of four studies, 60 two- and three-year-olds grouped by MLU were studied in an elicited imitation task where in the linguistic form of sentences was varied according to conjunction structure (whether sentential or phrasal) and according to pattern of redundancy deletion in conjunction reduction (whether forward or backward in directi…
Knowledge of Variable Binding in VP–Ellipsis
In this paper, we relate results from recent experimental study of young children's (3;0–7;11) comprehension of coordinate VP–ellipsis structures in English to a new theoretical proposal regarding their representation. Historically, theoretical treatments of these structures have been challenged by the nature of the ambiguity they involve, which includes both a “sloppy” interpretation (represented in terms of a bound variable) and a “strict” inte…
The Binding Theory Module
This paper offers a critical review of a series of experimental studies of first-language acquisition of anaphora. These studies provide converging evidence that children acquiring English respect Principle C of the Binding Theory—specifically, a form of Principle C in which an r-expression is pronoun free. Principle C is respected continuously across overt syntax development (from 3 to 7 years). Although knowledge of Principle C interacts signif…
Conjunction reduction in child language
Coordinate conjunction was evaluated in early child language with regard to its structural properties. In a series of four studies, 60 two- and three-year-olds grouped by MLU were studied in an elicited imitation task where in the linguistic form of sentences was varied according to conjunction structure (whether sentential or phrasal) and according to pattern of redundancy deletion in conjunction reduction (whether forward or backward in directi…
Development of coordination in the natural speech of young children
Natural speech of 32 young children from 2; 0 to 3; 1 (1·97 to 6·38 in MLU) was studied for evidence of use of coordination (by and ). Analyses of the structure of coordinative expressions reflected development in structural variants as well as amount of coordination. Analyses suggested that early forms of coordination in natural speech reflected the same constraints which had been suggested by previous study of these children's language through …
Coordinating studies of coordination
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
Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora
Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, I
Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition
Elsewhere we have argued on the basis of cross linguistic studies of directionality effects on anaphora in child language, that there is no universal ‘forward directionality preference (FDP)’; rather such a preference is linked to languages with specific grammatical properties. Although such a preference has been attested in English acquisition, matched experimental designs in Japanese, Chinese and Sinhalese, for example, do not show this effect.…
In Defense of Parameter‐Setting in L2 Acquisition
Bley‐Vroman and Chaudron (BV/C) (1990) challenge the theoretical and empirical validity of the results in Flynn (1983, 1987) and propose an alternative explanation of the reported results. In doing so, BV/C attempt to impugn the role of Universal Grammar (UG), particularly Parameter (P)‐setting, in L2 acquisition. In this paper, we demonstrate that BV/C's remarks are based on (1) failure to consider the theoretical and logical basis of the resear…
On the acquisition of syntax in Tamil
Garman (1974), reporting on twenty Tamil children aged three to five, postulated a linguistic strategy and two prelinguistic strategies to explain the results of a question-picture choice task involving sentences with embedded and subordinate clauses. In a reanalysis of his data, we identify four processing strategies and show that some of Garman's findings are better explained not as the outcome of prelinguistic strategies but as an artefact of …
The Binding Theory Module
This paper offers a critical review of a series of experimental studies of first-language acquisition of anaphora. These studies provide converging evidence that children acquiring English respect Principle C of the Binding Theory—specifically, a form of Principle C in which an r-expression is pronoun free. Principle C is respected continuously across overt syntax development (from 3 to 7 years). Although knowledge of Principle C interacts signif…
Chinese pronominals in universal grammar
Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition
Requirements for paradigm shift
Since Noam Chomsky's famous 1959 review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior , a linguistically based paradigm for research in first language acquisition has been strong, even in some senses, dominant. Even Piaget, whose main concern was the nature of cognitive development in general, did not deny the essential claim of a linguistically based paradigm for the study of language acquisition: ‘I (Piaget) also agree with him (Chomsky) on the fact that …
Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions
This paper examines two- to five-year-old children's knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that grammatical competence for inversion is present from the earliest testable ages of the child's sentence production. The experimental design is based on the premise that a valid test of this hypoth…
Chinese Children's Comprehension of Count-Classifiers and Mass-Classifiers
Knowledge of Variable Binding in VP–Ellipsis
In this paper, we relate results from recent experimental study of young children's (3;0–7;11) comprehension of coordinate VP–ellipsis structures in English to a new theoretical proposal regarding their representation. Historically, theoretical treatments of these structures have been challenged by the nature of the ambiguity they involve, which includes both a “sloppy” interpretation (represented in terms of a bound variable) and a “strict” inte…
Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages
Facing Plato's cave
C&T deserve credit for their concern for attaining empirical evidence, in particular evidence from language acquisition, for linguistic theory. They also deserve credit for bringing to the attention of the linguistic community the fact that variations in methodology do indeed produce variations in child behaviours, a fact well appreciated in behavioural sciences such as psychology, but often not fully appreciated outside of it; in particular, not…
Assessing child bilingualism
Aims and objectives: In this paper we investigate measures for the evaluation of a child’s bilingualism. Methodology: We compare a caretaker report on the estimated quantity and quality of a child’s bilingualism to results from direct assessment of the bilingual child’s production of complex sentences in Korean and English. We adopt an integrated methodology in which two case studies, closely matched on caretaker report and general background, ar…
Simultaneous vs. successive bilingualism among preschool-aged children
The current study compares simultaneous vs. successive bilingualism through a mixed-method research design with four four-year-old Korean–English bilingual children who were born and raised in the USA. Two simultaneous bilinguals were exposed to Korean and English from birth, whereas two successive bilinguals were exposed to Korean from birth, but to English between 18 and 24 months. Three direct assessment tasks (i.e. narrative, vocabulary, and …
From lexical to functional categories
Scholars of language development have long been challenged to understand the development of functional categories. Traditionally, it was assumed that children’s language development initially relies on lexical elements, while functional elements become accessible only at later periods; and that it is lexical growth which bootstraps grammatical development. Over the last decades, however, a growing body of empirical research has come to contradict…
Effects of SES on Executive Attention in Malay–English bilingual children in Singapore – Addendum
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
Linguistics (20 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (14 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Reading and Literacy Development (9 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 obras) · Cognitive psychology (8 obras) · Language acquisition (7 obras) · Mathematics (7 obras)