Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Psychology Revivals
Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Psychology Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-041-37946-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Understanding how a child acquires his or her native tongue is one of the major unsolved mysteries of psychology. Categories and Processes in Language Acquisition, originally published in 1988, and as the title indicates is about the acquisition of linguistic categories, and about the child’s learning processes. The categories of concern are those that are manifest in structure, i.e., other than simply as word meanings. The book begins with a chapter on the earliest nonlexical categories for which there is evidence. Then there are several chapters on word classes and the acquisition of relational categories, followed by papers that discuss models of the child’s learning mechanism. Finally, there is an integrative concluding chapter by two of the editors. Today it can be read in its historical context.
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Adult education, General, and Postgraduate
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Preface. Introduction Martin D. S. Braine 1. Language Acquisition Through Language Use: The Functional Sources of Children’s Early Utterances Anat Ninio and Catherine E. Snow 2. The Acquisition of Formal Word Classes Michael Maratsos 3. Word Class Distinctions in Developing Grammars Ruth A. Berman 4. The Nature of Early Language: Evidence from the Development of Hebrew Morphology Yonata Levy 5. On Formal Grammatical Categories in Early Child Language Anat Ninio 6. The Origin of Relational Categories Izchack M. Schlesinger 7. Learning Syntax and Meanings Through Optimization and Distributional Analysis J. Gerard Wolff 8. Modeling the Acquisition of Linguistic Structure Martin D. S. Braine Concluding Chapter. The Child’s Early Categories: Approaches to Language Acquisition Theory Yonata Levy and Izchack M. Schlesinger. Author Index. Subject Index.
