Language development : the essential readings / edited by Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth Bates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bates, Elizabeth, -2003.

Tomasello, Michael.

Series:

Essential readings in developmental psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

viii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

Research on child language is an interdisciplinary enterprise, uniting the efforts of psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, educators, neuroscientists, and communication scientists. In selecting representative readings from this broad and fast-moving field, the editors of this collection have emphasized recent papers that illustrate the contribution of child language research to developmental cognitive science.

Although the authors of these papers represent a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives, there is a deliberate bias in favor of an interactive, rather than nativist, approach. Essential works on the major milestones of language development are provided, followed by tutorials that stress the neural substrates of language development, pieces on computational models of language learning, and on genetic contributions to developmental language disorders. Some papers have been updated or specially commissioned for this collection. The volume avoids jargon and is designed to be accessible to upper level students across a range of disciplines.

Contents:

Part I Introduction to Speech Perception 13

1 Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants / Peter W. Jusczyk 19

2 Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life / Janet F. Werker, Renee N. Desjardins 26

3 Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys / Franck Ramus, Marc D. Hauser, Cory Miller, Dylan Morris, Jacques Mehler 34

4 Infant Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition / R.L. Gomez, L.A. Gerken 42

5 Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year / Anne Fernald, John P. Pinto, Daniel Swingley, Amy Weinberg, Gerald W. McRoberts 49

Part II Introduction to Word Learning 57

6 Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals / Helen I. Shwe, Ellen M. Markman 62

7 Lexical Development in English and Italian / Maria Cristina Caselli, P. Casadio, E. Bates 76

8 Perceiving Intentions and Learning Words in the Second Year of Life / Michael Tomasello 111

9 Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children / Lori Markson, Paul Bloom 129

10 On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition / Elizabeth Bates, Judith C. Goodman 134

Part III Introduction to Grammatical Development 163

11 The Item-Based Nature of Children's Early Syntactic Development / Michael Tomasello 169

12 Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure / Nameera Akhtar 187

13 The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules / Klaus-Michael Kopcke 203

14 An Exploration into Children's Use of Passives / Nancy Budwig 227

15 Acquisition of Complementation / Lois Bloom, Matthew Rispoli, Barbara Gartner, Jeremie Hafitz 248

16 Form/Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are? / Dan I. Slobin 267

Part IV Brains, Genes, and Computation in Language Development 291

17 Connectionism and Language Acquisition / Jeffrey L. Elman 295

18 Neural Correlates of Early Language Learning / Barbara Clancy, Barbara Finlay 307

19 Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders / Annette Karmiloff-Smith 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631217444

0631217452

OCLC:

46640840