Author : Timothy E. Moore
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1483294560
Cognitive Development and Acquisition of Language
Author : Melissa Bowerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521593588
Leading scholars examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development.
Author : Michael Siegal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199592721
To what extent, and in what ways, is a child's cognitive development influenced by their early experience of, and access to, language? What are the affects on development of impaired access to language? This book considers how possessing an enhanced or impaired access to language influences a child's development.
Author : Katherine Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 1998-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521629874
This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.
Author : Virginia Gonzalez
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN :
Major problems exist of differently diagnosing language-minority children who are in the process of learning English as a second language, and even sometimes show low levels of language proficiency. These children are often over-represented in special education classes when, in fact, they are normal children or even superior in the process of learning English as a second language. These children are also under-represented in gifted classes due to inappropriate tests and models used, as well as negative attitudes and lack of knowledge on the part of the teachers and evaluators. This edited volume seeks to increase the availability of research-derived knowledge and educational applications in the field of second-language learning. Virginia Gonzalez offers a rare and highly creative approach to second language acquisition research by applying contemporary cognitive psychology theory as a framework for investigating bilingual issues. The book offers a coherent and unified philosophy and context, presenting original research studies that provide a multidimensional socioeducational view to second-language learning and instruction in children and adults. Gonzalez and her colleagues assume the identity of the "Ethnic-Researcher," thereby emphasizing the need to include cultural and linguistic factors when studying, assessing, and instructing second-language learners. School psychologists, therapists, social workers.
Author : Michèle Kail
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253145
How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research during the last two decades has begun to solve some pieces of the puzzle. This book proposes an interdisciplinary collection of writings from some of the best specialists across several fields in cognitive science, offering a wide sample of recent advances in the study of first language acquisition, bilingualism, second language acquisition, and disorders of oral language. It is addressed to all researchers and students interested in language acquisition, as well as to teachers, clinicians and parents, who will find therein many new findings and varied methodological approaches, as well as challenging questions that are still debated and in need of further research.
Author : F. Nihan Ketrez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265380
Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child. The chapters in this volume highlight several such factors as potential contributors to developmental change, including factors that examine the role of immediate social environment (i.e., parent SES, parent and sibling input, peer interaction) and factors that focus on the child’s own cognitive and social development, such as the acquisition of theory of mind, event knowledge, and memory. The discussion of the different factors is presented largely from a crosslinguistic framework, using a multimodal perspective (speech, gesture, sign). The book celebrates the scholarly contributions of Prof. Ayhan Aksu-Koç – a pioneer in the study of crosslinguistic variation in language acquisition, particularly in the domain of evidentiality and theory of mind. This book will serve as an important resource for researchers in the field of developmental psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics across the globe.
Author : Allison Burkette
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108424805
Introduces students to the scientific study of language, using the basic principles of complexity theory.
Author : Caroline F. Rowland
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027261008
In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c) learn how to combine these representations in order to communicate effectively. These new findings have stimulated new theoretical perspectives that are more centered on explaining learning as a complex dynamic interaction between the child and her environment. This book is the first attempt to bring some of these new perspectives together in one place. It is a collection of essays written by a group of researchers who all take an approach centered on child-environment interaction, and all of whom have been influenced by the work of Elena Lieven, to whom this collection is dedicated.
Author : Misha Becker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262043580
An introduction to the study of children's language development that provides a uniquely accessible perspective on generative/universal grammar–based approaches. How children acquire language so quickly, easily, and uniformly is one of the great mysteries of the human experience. The theory of Universal Grammar suggests that one reason for the relative ease of early language acquisition is that children are born with a predisposition to create a grammar. This textbook offers an introduction to the study of children's acquisition and development of language from a generative/universal grammar–based theoretical perspective, providing comprehensive coverage of children's acquisition while presenting core concepts crucial to understanding generative linguistics more broadly. After laying the theoretical groundwork, including consideration of alternative frameworks, the book explores the development of the sound system of language—children's perception and production of speech sound; examines how words are learned (lexical semantics) and how words are formed (morphology); investigates sentence structure (syntax), including argument structure, functional structure, and tense; considers such “nontypical” circumstances as acquiring a first language past infancy and early childhood, without the abilities to hear or see, and with certain cognitive disorders; and studies bilingual language acquisition, both simultaneously and in sequence. Each chapter offers a summary section, suggestions for further reading, and exercises designed to test students' understanding of the material and provide opportunities to practice analyzing children's language. Appendixes provide charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet (with links to websites that allow students to listen to the sounds associated with these symbols) and a summary of selected experimental methodologies.
