Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development - Brossura

Bowerman, Melissa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521596599 ISBN 13: 9780521596596

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Riassunto

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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Recensione

'This thought-provoking book will challenge many existing preconceptions about the relationship between language and thought.' The Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute

Descrizione del libro

Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from this rapidly evolving field of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development, bringing together two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521596599
• ISBN 13: 9780521596596
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 616