01714cam a2200265 a 4500 1919 1919 1686851 OSt 20190912171446.0 990625s2000 enka b 001 0 eng 99038234 0304706817 (pb) DLC DLC DLC P118 .C384 2000 401.930 83 CAT 21 Cattell, N. R. Children's language : consensus and controversy / Ray Cattell. London ; New York : Cassell, 2000. x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Language acquisition. 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg ddc STS 0 0 ddc 0 0 33/2 AIISH AIISH 2019-09-12 1 401.930 83 CAT 12186 2026-05-04 00:00:00 2026-05-04 2019-09-12 STS