Phonological,lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition / edited by Jurgen Weissenborn, Barbara Hohle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weissenborn, Jürgen.

Höhle, Barbara.

Series:

Approaches to bootstrapping ; v. 2.

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 24.

Approaches to bootstrapping ; v. 2

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Language awareness in children.

Physical Description:

337 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What features of brain processing and neural development support linguistic development in young children? To what extent is the profile and timing of linguistic development in young children determined by a pre-ordained genetic programme? Does the environment play a crucial role in determining the patterns of change observed in children growing up? Recent experimental, neuro-imaging and computational studies of developmental change in children promise to contribute to a deeper understanding of how the brain gets wired up for language. The multi-disciplinary perspectives of cognitive neuroscience, experimental psycholinguistics and neural network modelling are brought to bear on four distinct areas in the study of language acquisition: early speech perception, word recognition, word learning and the acquisition of grammatical inflections. Each area demonstrates how linguistic development can be driven by the interaction of general learning mechanisms, highly sensitive to particular statistical regularities in the input, with a richly structured environment. This interaction provides the necessary ingredients for the emergence of linguistic representations that support mature language processing. Similar epigenetic principles, guiding the emergence of linguistic structure, apply to all these domains, offering insights into the precocity of young infant's sensitivity to speech contrasts as well as to the complexities of the problem facing the young child learning the Arabic plural.

Contents:

APPROACHES TO BOOTSTRAPPING. VOLUME 2

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Part III: Interactions of Prosodic and Morphosyntactic Knowledge in Early Language Production

Prosodic Constraints on Morphological Development

The Interface of Phonology and Syntax: The emergence of the article in the early acquisition of Spanish and German

Interaction between Prosody and Morphosyntax: Plurals within codas in the acquisition of European Portuguese

Compounds Triggering Prosodic Development

Prosodic Form, Syntactic Form, Phonological Bootstrapping, and Telegraphic Speech

From Prosody to Grammar in English: The differentiation of catenatives, modals, and auxiliaries from a single protomorpheme

Input and Production in the Early Development of Function Words

Part IV: Neurophysiological Aspects of Language Acquisition

Language Development during Infancy and Early Childhood: Electrophysiological correlates

Development Patterns of Brain Activity Reflecting Semantic and Syntactic Processes

Electrophysiological Studies of Language Development

Part V: Additional Perspectives on Language Acquisition

Interactionist Approaches to Early Language Acquisition

Repertoires of Primitive Elements: Prerequisite or result of acquisition?

Developmental Trajectories of Complex Signal Systems in Animals: The model of bird song

Index

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS (LALD).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162527

9781282162525

1282162527

9789027298225

902729822X

OCLC:

310947389