Christine Dimroth

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Christine Dimroth is involved.

Yearbook

EUROSLA Yearbook

Edited by Sarah Ann Liszka

ISSN 1568-1491 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9749

Journal

Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Langage, Interaction et Acquisition

Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Marion Blondel, Helen Engemann, Marianne Gullberg, Henriëtte Hendriks, Fabian Santiago, Anita Thomas and Georges Daniel Véronique

ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873

Titles

The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches

Edited by Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff

The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 249] 2018. v, 291 pp.

Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition

Edited by Christine Dimroth and Marianne Starren

The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 26] 2003. vi, 361 pp.

Articles (8) | Order by:

Andorno, Cecilia, Sandra Benazzo and Christine Dimroth 2023 Contrast marking variation in Romance and Germanic languages: Crosslinguistic and intralinguistic comparison through task-elicited speech Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches, Klumm, Matthias, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 92–109 | Article

In research on information structure and discourse cohesion, contrast has been defined in different ways, depending on the pragmatic/semantic relation established between the propositions involved in the contrast, on the text types and on other discourse conditions. As a whole, despite – or… read more

Kopečková, Romana, Christine Dimroth and Ulrike Gut 2019 Children’s and adults’ initial phonological acquisition of a foreign language Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5:3, pp. 374–401 | Article

This study compared children’s and adults’ L2 perception and production in the first hours of exposure to a foreign language. A total of 10 German children and 19 German adults performed a phoneme discrimination task and a sentence imitation task in Polish at two testing times. Exposed to a… read more

Dimroth, Christine 2018 Input and the acquisition of productive grammatical knowledge: Vocabulary size as missing link? Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 717–721 | Commentary

Dimroth, Christine and Sandra Benazzo 2018 Chapter 11. Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 313–356 | Chapter

Speakers of French and German differ in their preferred choice of information components for establishing contrastive and additive discourse relations. Whereas French speakers tend to relate and compare discourse entities to each other across utterances, German speakers prefer to relate and compare… read more

Dimroth, Christine and Stefan Sudhoff 2018 The grammatical realization of polarity contrast: Introductory remarks The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches, Dimroth, Christine and Stefan Sudhoff (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Dimroth, Christine, Rebekah Rast, Marianne Starren and Marzena Watorek 2013 Methods for studying the acquisition of a new language under controlled input conditions: The VILLA project EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 13 (2013), Roberts, Leah, Anna Ewert, Miroslaw Pawlak and Magdalena Wrembel (eds.), pp. 109–138 | Article

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Dimroth, Christine 2008 Perspectives on second language acquisition at different ages Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?, Philp, Jenefer, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey (eds.), pp. 53–79 | Article

Empirical studies addressing the age factor in second language acquisition have mainly been concerned with a comparison of end state data (from learners before and after the closure of a putative Critical Period for language acquisition) to the native speaker norm. Based on longitudinal corpus… read more

Dimroth, Christine, Petra Gretsch, Peter Jordens, Clive Perdue and Marianne Starren 2003 Finiteness in Germanic languages: A stage-model for first and second language development Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition, Dimroth, Christine and Marianne Starren (eds.), pp. 65–93 | Article