The Development of Language and Language Researchers
Essays in Honor of Roger Brown
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2013
436 pages
978-1-317-76697-1 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1988. This is a collection of essays that were presented at or generated afterwards at a meeting on language acquisition Society Development in April 1981: a symposium on "The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Whatever Happened to Linguistic Theory?" in Boston.
Reviews / Votes
"There can be little doubt that this has been a remarkably fruitful approach."-Language
"The book is remarkable for its unusual mix of academic excellence and humanity -- both qualities which Roger Brown has succeeded in passing on in no small measure to his students."
-Child Language Teaching and Therapy
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
16,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-76697-1 (9781317766971)
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02/1988
Psychology Press
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02/1988
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
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Person
Frank S. Kessel University of Houston
Content
Contents: F. Kessel, On Words and People: An Introduction to this Collection. D.I. Slobin, From the Garden of Eden to the Tower of Babel. M. Bowerman, Inducing the Latent Structure of Language. J. de Villiers, Faith, Doubt and Meaning. C. Hanlon, The Emergence of Set-Relational Quantifiers in Early Childhood. E. Wanner, The Parser's Architecture. S. Pinker, Learnability Theory and the Acquisition of a First Language. M. Maratsos, Crosslinguistic Analysis, Universals, and Language Acquisition. U. Bellugi, The Acquisition of a Spatial Language. L.A. Petito, "Language" in the Prelinguistic Child. R.F. Cromer, The Cognition Hypothesis Revisited. H. Tager-Flusberg, On the Nature of Language Acquisition Disorder: The Example of Autism. J.B. Gleason, Language and Socialization. C.B. Cazden, Environmental Assistance Revisited: Variation and Functional Equivalence. K. Hakuta, Why Bilinguals? L.M. Coleman, Language and Evolution of Identity and Self- Concept. D.C Rubin, Learning Poetic Language. E. Winner, H. Gardner, L. Silberstein, C. Meyer, Creating a World with Words. E. Rosch, Coherences: A Historical View.
