Language Acquisition in an Infant - Role of Context

DVOŘÁK, Martin. Language Acquisition in an Infant - Role of Context. Plzeň: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2009, s. 14-20. ISBN 978-80-7043-886-2.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Language Acquisition in an Infant - Role of Context

Autoři

DVOŘÁK, Martin

Vydání

Plzeň, od s. 14-20, 7 s. 2009

Nakladatel

Západočeská univerzita v Plzni

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Centrum jazykového vzdělávání

ISBN

978-80-7043-886-2

Klíčová slova anglicky

language acquisition, infant, bilingualism, context

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Anotace

V originále

As context represents “a fixed set of properties of the world that the child takes into account in using language“ (Keller-Kohen 1978, 454), its contribution to the overall process of language acquisition proves paramount. That is, context more or less triggers any communication activity determining its subsequent flow and the way it unfolds. In the infant, it encompasses all his/her verbal and non-verbal conduct as well as the factors surrounding the infant’s utterance including the perceptual and social properties of the people, objects, and events involved. This paper, utilizing the context classification deployed by Deborah Keller-Cohen in her paper titled Context in Child Language, focuses on the role different kinds of context (situational, physical, social, and linguistic) play in the development of infant's language during its individual stages (cooing, babbling, word and sentence formation) listing concrete instances of context -> utterance and utterance -> context interactions I have collected over the past three years. Besides, it attempts to delineate those contextual factors that I consider most fruitful in the language acquisition process. Some attention is also paid to the peculiarities of bilingual upbringing such as language games the child himself/herself invents in the context of two languages (Czech and English) as well as calque creation.