Rezension zu Antons, K., Ehrensperger, H. & Milesi, R. (2019). Praxis der Gruppendynamik. Übungen und Modelle. 10., vollständig überarbeitete Auflage

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Vois‐Tu Le Kem? Do You See the Bos? Foreign Word Learning at 14 Months

How easily can infants regularly exposed to only one language begin to acquire a second one? In three experiments, we tested 14‐month‐old English and French monolingual infants’ ability to learn words presented in foreign language sentence frames. Infants were trained on two novel word‐object pairings and then tested using a preferential looking task. Word forms were phonetically and phonotactically legal in both languages, and cross‐spliced across conditions, so only the sentence frames established the word as native or foreign. In Experiment 1, infants were taught one native and one foreign word and successfully learned both. In Experiment 2 and 3, infants were taught two foreign words, but only showed successful learning of the first word they encountered. These results demonstrate that infants can successfully learn words embedded in foreign language sentences, but this is more challenging than native word learning. More broadly, they show that the sentential context of a novel word, and not just the word form itself, influences infants’ early word learning.     

益·语·箴·言

那天,几位老友,没话找话,忽然聊起在哪地儿、哪事儿变老的话题。 话题是由我说的一件事引起的。那年,我带女儿去北京,还不到50岁,只是头上有了些白发,在公共汽车上,有时还给别人让座。可是,那天上了车,一个小女孩站了起来说：“请老爷爷坐。”有人叫你爷爷,又给你让座,还不是说：你老了。     

心·灵·慧·语

1．沈从文说：“我一生从不相信权力，只相信智慧。”黄永玉说：“跟智慧越近，离权力越远。”但更多的时候，权力不仅被等同于智慧，更被等同于思想。在这么简单的常识面前，我们已经一错再错。     

马勺·笊篱·瓢

我出生在河北献县的农村中，地名南宫村，有前、后二村，我家在前村。后村之北，约一里多处，有“北宫村”。年深日久，此二地究是何时、何人之“宫”，已不可考，连传说都没有了。