Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Language acquisition and language teaching in the usage-based framework 1
6. I. Theoretical and methodological foundations of language acquisition from a usage-based perspective
7. 1. Advances and lacunas in usage-based studies of first language acquisition 13
8. 2. Applied cognitive linguistics and second/ foreign language varieties: Towards an explanatory account 47
9. 3. Acquiring relational meaning from the situational context: What linguists can learn from analyzing videotaped interaction 73
10. 4. Validity issues in longitudinal research 97
11. II. Driving forces of language development
12. 5. L1 acquisition beyond input frequency 117
13. 6. Acquiring and processing morpheme constructions: The MultiRep Model 143
14. 7. The development of Dutch object-naming constructions in bilingual Turkish-Dutch children receiving low amounts of Dutch language input 169
15. 8. Acquisition order of connectives in stories of Dutch L1 and L2 children from 4 to 8 191
16. 9. Acquisition of additive connectives by Russian-German bilinguals: A usage-based approach 207
17. III. Implications for language teaching and translation
18. 10. Development of chunks in Dutch L2 learners of English 235
19. 11. Predictive power of controled productive knowledge of collocations over L2 proficiency 263
20. 12. Comparing word sense distinctions with bilingual comparable corpora: A pilot study of adjectives in English and Spanish 287
21. Index 305