Children's Language

Revised Edition
revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8880-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cattell, Ray

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Getting to rub two words together

2. Catching fire

3. Do we teach children to speak: Skinner and behaviourism

4. Learning through touching and feeling: Jean Piaget

5. What goes on in the mind?: Mentalism and Chomsky

6. A close look at Chomsky's theories

7. Do we help children to speak

8. Learning how to mean: Halliday

9. The two hemispheres of the brain - A

10. The two hemispheres of the brain - B

11. The bounds of language acquisition

12. Animals and language

13. Bootstrapping - A

14. Bootstrapping - B

15. The best of both worlds? Annette Karmiloff-Smith

16. Conclusion Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

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