Language contact phenomena in multilingual first language acquisition: Theory, data, methods

这个网络将致力于从用法为基础的多语言第一语言习得的研究人员聚集在一起。它有两个主要目标：首先，我们希望考虑基于用法的方法--主要基于单语习得研究--对多语言习得的理论意义，从而提炼和潜在地扩展基于用法的语言习得理论。这与网络中讨论的方法和语料库语言问题密切相关。因此，该网络的第二个目标是为双语习得研究开发丰富的语料库-语言资源以及先进的量化分析方法。至于理论目标，该网络旨在解决与多语言学习有关的关键研究问题：基于用法的语言习得方法假设儿童通过从他们遇到的具体语言使用实例中提取模式来学习他们的语言(S)。这就提出了这样一个问题：在多语言学习的过程中，来自一种以上语言的模式是如何相互作用的，以及这些模式与儿童接受的输入之间是如何关联的？在方法论方面，基于使用的研究的一个关键原则是使用数据驱动的统计方法识别这些模式。在基于使用的语言习得研究的背景下，已经发展了各种方法，如追溯方法或基于语块的学习者。进一步发展和完善这些方法是该网络的方法学目标之一。在三年的时间里，我们希望加强网络成员之间现有的合作，并发起新的合作。网络成员承诺在不同的小组开展一些合作项目，以解决理论和方法上的挑战，并对多语种习得有更细微的了解。在六次项目会议上，网络成员与来自用法语言学、儿童语言习得研究、多语言学和语料库语言学领域的主要研究人员讨论他们的项目：阿黛尔·戈德堡教授(普林斯顿)、珍宁·特雷弗斯-达勒教授(雷丁大学)、汉斯-约尔格·施密德教授(慕尼黑)、奥兹莱姆·圣基蒂诺·ğlu博士(斯图加特)和布赖恩·麦克温尼教授(卡内基梅隆大学)。

This network brings together researchers working on multilingual first language acquisition from a usage-based perspective. It has two major goals: firstly, we want to consider the theoretical implications of the usage-based approach – which are largely based on studies of monolingual acquisition – for multilingual acquisition, thus refining and potentially extending the usage-based theory of language acquisition. This is closely related to methodological and corpus-linguistic questions that are discussed in the network. The second goal of the network is therefore to develop rich corpus-linguistic resources for the study of bilingual language acquisition as well as advanced quantitative methods for analyzing them.As for the theoretical goals, the network aims at addressing key research questions pertaining to multilingual language learning: The usage-based approach to language acquisition assumes that children learn their language(s) by abstracting away patterns from the concrete instances of language use they encounter. This raises the question which patterns are actually learnt, how patterns from more than one language interact in the process of multilingual language learning, and how these patterns correlate with the input the children receive. On the methodological side, a key tenet of usage-based research is identifying those patterns using data-driven statistical methods. Various approaches such as the traceback method or the Chunk-Based Learner have been developed in the context of usage-based language acquisition studies. It is one of the methodological goals of the network to further develop and refine these methods. Over the course of three years, we want to intensify existing collaborations between the network members and initiate new ones. The network members commit to pursuing a number of collaborative projects in different groups in order to tackle theoretical and methodological challenges and to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of multilingual language acquisition. At six project meetings, the network members discuss their projects with key researchers from the fields of usage-based linguistics, child language acquisition research, multilingualism, and corpus linguistics: Prof. Dr. Adele Goldberg (Princeton), Prof. Dr. Jeanine Treffers-Daller (Reading University), Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schmid (Munich), Dr. Özlem Çetinoğlu (Stuttgart) and Prof. Dr. Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University).