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2021, Academia Letters
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Alan Davies, The Native Speaker: Myth and Reality, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon (2003) 237 pp2005 •
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A shorter version of this paper will appear as a contribution to the Frontiers Research Topic (Language Sciences), "The Janus-Face of language: Where are the emotions in words and the words in emotions?" [forthcoming later in 2014] See: http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences/researchtopics/The_Janus-Face_of_language_Whe/2202
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How children break into language has been a contested issue among both linguists and behavioural psychologists for a very long time. Among the various competing theories on child language acquisition are the universal grammar (nativism/innateness) and the interactionists perspectives. This paper explores how these two theories account for the acquisition of phonological and sign language by reviewing current research in the fields of child first language and simultaneous bilingual first language learners. And based on empirical research findings, I argue that at issue is the discourse on the role of input in language acquisition given that both theories agree on innate biological endowment to language learning. Hence, my conclusion is that, the innateness and interactionists arguments can be framed in terms of language competence and performance among first language learners.
Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull, Stephen J. Cowley, Jamin Pelkey, Paul Cobley, Winfried Nöth, Morten Tønnessen
Without biosemiosis, there could be no human language. The volume presents international perspectives that have been inspired by this simple idea. The contributors open up new methods, directions and perspectives on both language in general and specific human languages. Many commonplace notions (language, dialect, syntax, sign, text, dialogue, discourse, etc.) have to be rethought once due attention is given to the living roots of languages. Accordingly, the contributors unite “eternal” problems of the humanities (such as language and thought, origin of language, prelinguistic meaning- making, borders of human language and “marginal” linguistic phenomena) with new inspirations drawing from natural science. They do so with respect to issues such as: how biolinguistics relates to biosemiotics, the history and value of general linguistic and (bio)semiotic models, and how empirical work can link the study of language with biosemiotic phenomena. The volume thus begins to unify perspectives on language(s) and living systems. Biosemiotics connects the sciences with the humanities while offering a new challenge to autonomous linguistics by pointing towards new kinds of interdisciplinary fusion.
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