Ray Cattell

Children's Language

Revised Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. Although there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong, there is much less agreement as to how children really learn language. This revised edition of Ray Cattell's bestselling textbook aims to give readers the background necessary to form their own views on the debate, and includes accessible summaries of key thinkers, including Chomsky, Halliday, Karmiloff-Smith and Piaget.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Revised Edition
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780826488800
• ISBN-10: 0826488803
• Artikelnr.: 21406973

Autorenporträt

Ray Cattell is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Getting started with language
2. Starting to make progress
3. Do we teach children to speak?: B F Skinner and behaviourism
4. Learning through touching and feeling: Jean Piaget
5. What goes on in the mind?: Noam Chomsky and mentalism
6. A close look at Chomsky's theories
7. Do we help children to speak?: 'Motherese' or child-directed speech
8. Learning how to mean: Michael Halliday
9. The two hemispheres of the brain: their functions in relation to
language
10. The two hemispheres of the brain: modern discoveries
11. The bounds of language acquisition
12. Animals and language
13. New knowledge about infant knowledge
14. Bootstrapping in vocabulary
15. The best of both worlds?: The work of Annette Karmiloff-Smith
16. Conclusion
Glossary