| Description |
x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Getting to rub two words together (Getting started with language) -- Catching fire (starting to make fast progress) -- Do we teach children to speak? (B.F. Skinner and behaviourism) -- Learning through touching and feeling (Jean Piaget: learning is based on handling objects) -- What goes on in the mind? (Mentalism as a school of thought. Noam Chomsky) -- A close look at Chomsky's theories (Some of Chomsky's work on language acquisition) -- Do we help children to speak? ("Motherese" or child-directed speech) -- Learning how to mean (Michael Halliday's views on how language develops) -- The two hemispheres of the brain - A (Their functions in relation to language) -- The two hemispheres of the brain - B (Modern discoveries about them) -- The bounds of language acquisition (What is and what isn't natural language acquisition?) -- Was Dr. Dolittle lying? (Animals and language) -- "Bootstrapping" - A (New knowledge about infant knowledge) -- "Bootstrapping" - B (Bootstrapping in vocabulary) -- The best of both worlds? (The work of Annette Karmiloff-Smith) -- Conclusion (Drawing the threads together). |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Language acquisition. |
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Children -- Language.
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Language acquisition.
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| ISBN |
0304706817 paperback |
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0304701289 hardback |
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