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Author : Maja Sever
Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis A Conceptual Basis of Language Acquisition from Pinker's Point of View by : Maja Sever
Download or read book A Conceptual Basis of Language Acquisition from Pinker's Point of View written by Maja Sever. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Bowerman
Release : 2001-01-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development by : Melissa Bowerman
Download or read book Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development written by Melissa Bowerman. This book was released on 2001-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development.
Author : Juergen Weissenborn
Release : 2013-02-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition by : Juergen Weissenborn
Download or read book Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition written by Juergen Weissenborn. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent linguistic theory, there has been an explosion of detailed studies of language variation. This volume applies such recent analyses to the study of child language, developing new approaches to change and variation in child grammars and revealing both early knowledge in several areas of grammar and a period of extended development in others. Topics dealt with include question formation, "subjectless" sentences, object gaps, rules for missing subject interpretation, passive sentences, rules for pronoun interpretation and argument structure. Leading developmental linguists and psycholinguists show how linguistic theory can help define and inform a theory of the dynamics of language development and its biological basis, meeting the growing need for such studies in programs in linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science.
Author : Lena Linden
Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Basic Theories of Language Acquisition by : Lena Linden
Download or read book The Basic Theories of Language Acquisition written by Lena Linden. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: HS First Language Acquisition, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Most of the concepts and theories explaining how native languages are acquired go back to three different approaches put forward by Burrhus Federic Skinner, Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, either by using their ideas as a starting point or by rejecting them and formulating a new or altered Hypothesis. This paper will try to present those three basic theories, also taking into account the contexts out of which they emerged, as to fully understand linguistic, like any other scientific, views and theories, they have always to be evaluated with respect to the scientific and cultural background they appeared in. First it will try to show how Skinners concept of 'verbal behavior' with respect to language acquisition emerged in the development of behaviouristic theories. This will be followed by Chomsky's criticism of Skinner's ideas, leading to his own theory of language and language acquisition, which will be presented. Jean Piaget offers a cognitive approach to the question. His view will be described before comparing nativist and cognitivist ideas, concerning the points whether or not innate structures exist and in how far linguistic and cognitive development are interrelated, taking the opposed views of Piaget and Chomsky, the forerunners of many other important linguists, as an example.
Author : Steven Pinker
Release : 2010-12-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Language Instinct by : Steven Pinker
Download or read book The Language Instinct written by Steven Pinker. This book was released on 2010-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
