Construction Learning as a Complex Adaptive System Psycholinguistic Evidence from L2 Learners of English /

• Main Author: Baicchi, Annalisa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Language and education.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Language Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Psychology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Constructional Approaches to Language Complexity
• Introduction: Theoretical Prerequisites
• 1. Complex Adaptive Systems: The Case of Language
• 2. The Complex Dynamics of Meaning Construction
• 3. Construction Grammars
• Part II. Experimental Studies: Psychological Evidence of Constructional Meaning
• Introduction: Priming
• 4. Sentence-sorting Experiment
• 5. Sentence-elicitation Experiment
• 6. Sentence-completion Experiment
• 7. Concluding Remarks.