Author: Sascha W. Felix
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311087167X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Book Description
Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
Author: F. Nihan Ketrez
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027265380
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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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: Katherine Nelson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521629874
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.
Author: Sadia Belkhir
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527546608
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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This collection highlights the interplay between cognition and language learning, and tackles such issues as cognition and skills development, language processing, vocabulary memorisation, metaphor identification, vocabulary attrition, motivation, and the perception of phonemes, among others. The contributions here represent current forward-looking research in the field of cognitive linguistics and education. To date, there has been a sharp need for innovative research that examines the interrelationship between cognition and the process of language learning. This volume responds to this requirement, bringing together researchers interested in this research area to discuss their contributions, and to open debates about the role played by cognition in language learning. The book will appeal to master’s and doctoral students, teachers, educational practitioners, and researchers interested in research into the interaction between cognition and language learning.
Author: John R. Hayes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Michael Spivey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139536141
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1453
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Our ability to speak, write, understand speech and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going on around them, but by trailblazers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. Some topics discussed include how children learn language, how average adults understand and produce language, how language is represented in the brain, how brain-damaged individuals perform in terms of their language abilities and computer-based models of language and meaning. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates who are interested in the recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.
Author: Timothy E. Moore
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483294560
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Cognitive Development and Acquisition of Language
Author: Melissa Bowerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521593588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Leading scholars examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development.
Author: Alison Garton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780863773709
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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For students of developmental psychology, this book should be a useful reference guide to the main concepts concerned with "motherese", scaffolding, socio-cognitive learning and joint problem solving. It is also a contribution to the debate on the influence of social behaviour on development.
Author: Timothy E. Moore
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN:
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Cognitive Development and Acquisition of Language provides information pertinent to the relationship between cognitive development and language acquisition. This book describes some of the ways in which cognitive growth is reflected in, and interacts with, the development of language. Organized into 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of generative transformational grammar. This text then presents some of the methodological problems inherent in the investigation of language acquisition. Other chapters consider the argument that the child acquires English expressions for space and time by learning how to apply these expressions to the a priori knowledge he has about time and space. This book discusses as well a general hypothesis about the semantic knowledge by the child. The final chapter provides an integrative review of the research on language development and suggests some ways in which cognitive development and language acquisition are interdependent. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists and linguists.
