Davies / Maunder Personal Social Services

Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4831-9314-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Web PDF

Personal Social Services serves as a comprehensive source of statistical data for any researcher, be they students or professional. The text opens with a definition of children's services, health and welfare services. It describes and discusses local authority personal social service statistics generated by authorities responsible for rendering social services. The volume also provides the changes that occurred from 1948 to 1970. The book surveyed the services being given to aged people and the handicapped. The discussion proceeds to the powers and duties of local authorities, and a description of the way they conduct their obligations. The process of private fostering and adoption are described. A part of the text reviews and describes the statistical returns. The statistical returns for children's services and those coming from the services for old people and the handicapped are evaluated. Another chapter focuses on the returns from mental health service. The last chapter of the book discusses the development of statistical data, the needs this data serves, the inputs, outputs, their combinations and interpretation. The book will provide useful information to government service provider, statistician, students, and researchers in the field of statistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, B. P.

Maunder, W. F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of
Contents;6
5;List of Contributors;12
6;Preface;14
7;Acknowledgments;16
8;Introduction;18
9;Chapter Summaries;23
10;References;27
11;Part I: THE TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES;28
11.1;Chapter 1. Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Language Abilities;30
11.1.1;The Place of Psychometrics in Psychology;33
11.1.2;Factor-Analytic Studies of Language Abilities;34
11.1.3;The Possible Relevance of Language Ability Studies for Linguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Research;39
11.1.4;Studies of Specific Language Abilities Involved in Foreign Language Aptitude Tests;41
11.1.5;References;47
11.2;Chapter 2. Sapir, Competence, Voices;50
11.3;Chapter 3. The Treatment of Individual Differences in Psycholinguistic Research;64
12;Part II: LANGUAGE USE AND LANGUAGE JUDGMENTS;72
12.1;Chapter 4. Verbal Fluency and the Language-Bound Effect;74
12.1.1;General Method;76
12.1.2;Results and Discussion;81
12.1.3;General Discussion;95
12.1.4;Acknowledgments;99
12.1.5;References;100
12.2;Chapter 5. On Fluency;102
12.2.1;1. The Generativist Position;102
12.2.2;2. Language Variability;104
12.2.3;3. Two Senses of ''Competence'';106
12.2.4;4. The Competence-Performance Distinction;108
12.2.5;5. Dimensions of Fluency;109
12.2.6;6. Sources of Fluency Differences;110
12.2.7;7. Research Possibilities;115
12.2.8;8. Summary;118
12.2.9;References;118
12.3;Chapter 6. Language Use and Language Judgment;120
12.3.1;1. Population Differences in Metalinguistic Performance, in the Presence of Relatively Invariant Linguistic Performance;123
12.3.2;2. Are the Metalinguistic Functions Related to Language Use and Learning? ;138
12.3.3;3. Summary and Conclusions ;140
12.3.4;Acknowledgments;140
12.3.5;References ;140
12.4;Chapter 7. Where's English? ;144
12.4.1;1. Background ;144
12.4.2;2. The Experiment ;148
12.4.3;3. The Results ;152
12.4.4;4. Downshot and Upshot ;174
12.4.5;Acknowledgments;178
12.4.6;Appendix ;178
12.4.7;References ;180
13;Part III: ACQUISITION ;182
13.1;Chapter 8. Profile Analysis of Language Disability;184
13.1.1;Descriptive ;186
13.1.2;Developmental ;187
13.1.3;Interactional ;188
13.1.4;Profiles and Language Disability ;189
13.1.5;Profile 1: Hugh ;190
13.1.6;Profile 2: Peter ;192
13.1.7;Profiles 3, 4, and 5: Difficulties with Complex Sentences;194
13.1.8;Profiles Extended ;196
13.1.9;Appendix;199
13.1.10;References ;205
13.2;Chapter 9. Phonology as an Individual Access System: Some Data from Language Acquisition;206
13.2.1;1. Individual Differences in Phonology;206
13.2.2;2. Individual Differences in Child Phonologies;210
13.2.3;3. Toward a Model of Phonology;215
13.2.4;Acknowledgments;216
13.2.5;References;216
13.3;Chapter 10. Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition;220
13.3.1;Cognitive and Social Strategies in Second Language Learning;224
13.3.2;Sources of Individual Differences in Second Language Learning;237
13.3.3;Summary;244
13.3.4;References;245
13.4;Chapter 11. Individual Variation in Some Phonetic Aspects of Language Acquisition;246
13.4.1;Introduction;246
13.4.2;Apologia;247
13.4.3;Aspects of Perception;247
13.4.4;Conclusion;255
13.4.5;Acknowledgments;256
13.4.6;References;256
14;Part IV: NEUROLINGUISTICS;260
14.1;Chapter 12. Individual Variations in the Perception of Dichotic Chords;262
14.2;Chapter 13. Effect of Aphasia on the Retrieval of Lexicon and Syntax;270
14.2.1;Agrammatism;271
14.2.2;Acknowledgments;276
14.2.3;References;276
14.3;Chapter 14. How Shall a Thingummy1 Be Called?;278
14.3.1;Method;282
14.3.2;Results;285
14.3.3;Acknowledgments;292
14.3.4;References;292
14.4;Chapter 15. On the Evolution of Neurolinguistic Variability: Fossil Brains Speak;294
14.4.1;Materials and Methods;297
14.4.2;Results;299
14.4.3;Discussion;302
14.4.4;Summary and Conclusions;303
14.4.5;References;304
14.5;Chapter 16. Strategies of Linguistic Processing in Human Split-Brain Patients;306
14.5.1;Lateralization and Language;306
14.5.2;Language Limitations of the Right Hemisphere;308
14.5.3;What Is Meant by Language?;309
14.5.4;The Cognitive Dispositions of the Right Hemisphere;310
14.5.5;A Missing Process in the Right Hemisphere;313
14.5.6;Summary;316
14.5.7;Acknowledgments;317
14.5.8;References;317
15;Part V: SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS;320
15.1;Chapter 17. Individual and Social Differences in Language Use;322
15.1.1;Example 1: Regent St.;326
15.1.2;Example 2: Yogurt Dressing;327
15.1.3;Example 3: Party;330
15.1.4;Example 4: Who's the Artist?;331
15.1.5;Example 5: How's the Family?;332
15.1.6;Example 6: The Fingers of the Hand;333
15.1.7;Example 7: A Gig;335
15.1.8;Example 8: I Don't Wanna Read;335
15.1.9;Example 9: I Don't Know;336
15.1.10;Example 10: A Bridge;336
15.1.11;Conclusion;338
15.1.12;Acknowledgments;341
15.1.13;References;341
15.2;Chapter 18. Locating the Frontier between Social and Psychological Factors in Linguistic Variation;344
15.2.1;A Deviant Individual: Nathan B.;347
15.2.2;Individual Variation in Repetition Tests;349
15.2.3;Individual Variation in the Acquisition of the Philadelphia Dialect;352
15.2.4;Categorical Discrimination;355
15.2.5;References;356
16;Subject Index;358