TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cattell,N.R.
TI  - Children's language: consensus and controversy 
SN  - 0304706817 (pb)
AV  - P118 .C384 2000
U1  - 401.930 83 CAT 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Cassell
KW  - Language acquisition
N1  - 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
ER  -