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Mixed methods?
I came across an interesting longitudinal study on Americans studying abroad in China, which especially caught my eye when I read the abstract stating… “This article is part of a longitudinal study of...
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Aphasia: Language lost and found
I missed my weekly post last week, I guess that’s the way things go sometimes, but just to keep the ball rolling, here are some things I’ve been thinking about: Aphasia (pron.:/əˈfeɪʒə/ or /əˈfeɪziə/...
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Awakenings: The Romantic Science of Oliver Sacks
After one week of treatment (and on a dose of 2 gm. L-DOPA daily), Mrs B. started talking -quite audibly for the first time in many years, although her vocal force would decay after two or three short...
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A new direction or the way back home?: Grammar in interaction
“The present volume offers an intellectual springboard for a transformative synthesis – an aufhebung, from a separately conceived interactional grammar and grammar of interaction to an...
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The central problem of first language acquisition
The central problem is to characterize how children can master their native languages. The problem is one of the deficiency of the stimulus: people come to have a very rich, complex and varied...
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Ochs and Shieffelin on motherese…fatherese…parentese?
All parents talk to their children in ‘motherse,’ ‘fatherese,’ ‘parentese’ or whatever you’d like to call it. You know, that high pitched, slowed down, emphasized speech style that parents universally...
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Speech perception in first and second language learning
“It is easy to understand how an innate ability to perceive speech sounds according to phonetic categories would ease the process of language learning, and the eventual identification of meaningful...
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consensual indexicality and messiness in the social sciences
What problems arise when human beings turn the lens of scrutiny on themselves? What we think social science is, and how we go about doing it has always been interesting to me. The...
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Jeff Siegel on Second Dialect Acquisition
“I was born in the USA (Chicago) but have lived in Australia for more than twenty years. I’m an Ausstralian citizen, my wife and kids are Australian, I barrack for Australia in the Olympics (even over...
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A timeline of second language acquisition
UPDATE: 3/26/14 Unfortunately this little project of mine has been delayed/canceled because I was unable to get permission from publishers to create this using already existing content in different...
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