Construction Learning as a Complex Adaptive System
Psycholinguistic Evidence from L2 Learners of English
Authors: Baicchi, Annalisa
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This book presents the current state of the art on Construction Grammar models and usage-based language learning research. It reports on three psycholinguistic experiments conducted with the participation of university-level Italian learners of English, whose second language proficiency corresponds to levels B1 and B2 of the ‘Common European Framework of Reference for Languages’ (CEFR). This empirical research on the role of constructions in the facilitation of language learning contributes to assessing how bilinguals deal with L2 constructions in the light of sentence-sorting, sentence-elicitation, and sentence-completion tasks. Divided into two parts, the book first introduces the main theoretical prerequisites and then reports on the experimental studies. It provides a comprehensive review of the current research in a range of disciplines, including complexity theories, cognitive semantics, construction grammars, usage-based linguistics, and language learning.
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Introduction: Theoretical Prerequisites
Pages 3-8
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Complex Adaptive Systems: The Case of Language
Pages 9-31
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The Complex Dynamics of Meaning Construction
Pages 33-47
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Construction Grammar(s)
Pages 49-75
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Introduction: Priming
Pages 79-86
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Construction Learning as a Complex Adaptive System
- Book Subtitle
- Psycholinguistic Evidence from L2 Learners of English
- Authors
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- Annalisa Baicchi
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Education
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-18269-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-18269-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-18268-1
- Series ISSN
- 2211-1921
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 131
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations
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