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Children's language : consensus and controversy / Ray Cattell.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Cassell, 2000.Description: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0304706817 (pb)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.930 83 CAT 21
LOC classification:
  • P118 .C384 2000
Contents:
Getting to rub two words together - getting started with language; catching fire - starting to make fast progress; do we teach children to speak?; learning through touching and feeling; what goes on in the mind? - mentalism as a school of thought; a 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; the two halves of the brain - their functions in relation to language; the bounds of language acquisition - what is and what isn't natural language acquisition?; "bootstrapping" - fascinating linguistic capacities of very young babies; the best of both worlds - the work of Annette Karmiloff-Smith; conclusion - drawing the threads together.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272) and index.

Getting to rub two words together - getting started with language; catching fire - starting to make fast progress; do we teach children to speak?; learning through touching and feeling; what goes on in the mind? - mentalism as a school of thought; a 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; the two halves of the brain - their functions in relation to language; the bounds of language acquisition - what is and what isn't natural language acquisition?; "bootstrapping" - fascinating linguistic capacities of very young babies; the best of both worlds - the work of Annette Karmiloff-Smith; conclusion - drawing the threads together.

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