Language Development The Essential Readings,9780631217459

Language Development The Essential Readings

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631217459
ISBN10: 0631217452
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-21
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This collection brings together for students the essential readings from the broad and fast-moving field of child language development.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Bates is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, where she also directs the Center for Research in Language and the Project in Cognitive and Neural Development. She is a visiting scholar on a regular basis at the National Research Council Institute of Psychology in Rome. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 papers and nine books, including most recently, Rethinking Innateness (1996).

Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His previous publications include Primate Cognition (1997), The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure (1998) and The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
General Introduction 1(12)
Part I Introduction to Speech Perception 13(44)
Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants
19(7)
Peter W. Jusczyk
Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life
26(8)
Janet F. Werker
Renee N. Desjardins
Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys
34(8)
Franck Ramus
Marc D. Hauser
Cory Miller
Dylan Morris
Jacques Mehler
Infant Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition
42(7)
R.L. Gomez
L.A. Gerken
Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year
49(8)
Anne Fernald
John P. Pinto
Daniel Swingley
Amy Weinberg
Gerald W. McRoberts
Part II Introduction to Word Learning 57(106)
Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals
62(14)
Helen I. Shwe
Ellen M. Markman
Lexical Development in English and Italian
76(35)
Maria Cristina Caselli
P. Casadio
E. Bates
Perceiving Intentions and Learning Words in the Second Year of Life
111(18)
Michael Tomasello
Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children
129(5)
Lori Markson
Paul Bloom
On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition
134(29)
Elizabeth Bates
Judith C. Goodman
Part III Introduction to Grammatical Development 163(128)
The Item-Based Nature of Children's Early Syntactic Development
169(18)
Michael Tomasello
Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure
187(16)
Nameera Akhtar
The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules
203(24)
Klaus-Michael Kopcke
An Exploration into Children's use of Passives
227(21)
Nancy Budwig
Acquisition of Complementation
248(19)
Lois Bloom
Matthew Rispoli
Barbara Gartner
Jeremie Hafitz
Form/Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are?
267(24)
Dan I. Slobin
Part IV Brains, Genes, and Computation in Language Development 291(60)
Connectionism and Language Acquisition
295(12)
Jeffrey L. Elman
Neural Correlates of Early Language Learning
307(24)
Barbara Clancy
Barbara Finlay
Development Itself is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders
331(20)
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Index 351

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