Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development / edited by Melissa Bowerman, Stephen Levinson.
Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evolving fields of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development. At first sight, advances in the two ar...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2001.
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| Series: | Cambridge books online.
Language, culture, and cognition ; no. 3. |
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| Summary: | Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evolving fields of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development. At first sight, advances in the two areas seem to have moved in opposing directions: the study of language acquisition has been especially concerned with diversity, explaining how children learn languages of widely different types, while the study of cognitive development has focused on uniformity, clarifying how children build on fundamental, presumably universal concepts. This book brings these two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue, suggesting a synthesis in which the process of language acquisition may interact with early cognitive development. It provides empirical contributions based on a variety of languages, populations and ages, and theoretical discussions that cut across the disciplines of psychology, linguistics and anthropology. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011). Available through Cambridge books online SHEDL trial from 9th January 2012 to 9th July 2012. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (616 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780511620669 0511620667 9780521593588 0521593581 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511620669 |
| Language: | English. |