Research Catalog

Title

Research methods in language acquisition : principles, procedures, and practices / María Blume and Barbara C. Lust, with Yuchin Chien, Cristina D. Dye, Claire A. Foley, and Yarden Kedar.

Author

Blume, María

Publication

• Washington, DC : American Psychological Association ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Lust, Barbara, 1941-

Description

vi, 311 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

Language acquisition research is challenging - the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. The audible components of speech, however, are quantifiable and thus provide crucial data. This practical guide synthesizes the authors? decades of experience into a comprehensive set of tools that will allow students and early career researchers in the field to design and conduct rigorous studies that produce reliable and valid speech data and interpretations. 0The authors thoroughly review specific techniques for obtaining qualitative and quantitative speech data, including how to tailor the testing environments for optimal results. They explore observational tasks for collecting natural speech and experimental tasks for eliciting specific types of speech. Language comprehension tasks are also reviewed so researchers can study participants? interpretations of speech and conceptualizations of grammar. Most tasks are oriented towards children, but special considerations for infants are also reviewed, as well as multilingual children. 0Chapters also provide strategies for transcribing and coding raw speech data into reliable data sets that can be scientifically analyzed. Furthermore, they investigate the intricacies of interpretation so that researchers can make empirically sound inferences from their data and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to unscientific conclusions.

Series Statement

Language and the human lifespan series

Uniform Title

Language and the human lifespan series.

Subject

• Spracherwerb
• Forschungsmethode
• Language acquisition > Methodology
• Language acquisition > Data processing
• Language acquisition > Research
• Language and languages > Age differences
• Children > Psychological aspects
• Speech acts (Linguistics) > Research
• Psycholinguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fundamentals of language acquisition research -- Experimental and observational methods in language acquisition research -- Managing and interpreting speech data -- Special considerations in language acquisition research.

ISBN

• 9783110415223
• 3110415224

LCCN

^^2016030001

OCLC

968685718

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library