Early language development : bridging brain and behaviour / edited by Angela D. Friederici, Guillaume Thierry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friederici, Angela D.

Thierry, Guillaume.

Series:

Trends in language acquisition research ; v. 5.

Trends in language acquisition research, 1569-0644 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Neurophysiology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 263 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants' overt behavioral responses. On the other hand, more recent methods such as neuroimaging and, in particular, event-related potentials provide access to implicit responses from the infant brain while often relying on rather gross experimental contrasts. The aims of this book are both to provide neuroscientists with an overview of the ingenious behavioral paradigms that have been developed in the field of language development and to introduce the power of neurophysiological indices to behavioral experimentalists. The two approaches are compared at various levels of processing: phonetic discrimination, categorical perception, speech segmentation, syllable and word recognition, semantic priming. A general discussion brings together the two approaches, highlights their respective contributions and limitations and proposes constructive ideas for future integration.

Contents:

The method of event-related brain potentials in the study of cognitive processes : a tutorial / Claudia Mannel

Event-related potential studies of early language processing at the phoneme, word, and sentence levels / Barbara T. Conboy ... [et al.]

Behavioral and electrophysiological exploration of early word segmentation in French : distinguishing the syllabic and lexical levels / Thierry Nazzi ... [et al.]

Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition / Valesca Kooijman, Elizabeth K. Johnson and Anne Cutler

The onset of word form recognition : a behavioural and neurophsyiological study / Guillaume Thierry and Marilyn May Vihman

Neurophysiological correlates of picture-word priming in one-year-olds / Manuela Friedrich

The effects of early word learning on brain development / Elizabeth A. Sheehan and Debra L. Mills

From perception to grammar / Jacques Mehler ... [et al.]

The development of syntactic brain correlates during the first years of life / Angela D. Friederici and Regine Oberecker

Language acquisition and ERP approaches : prospects and challenges / David Poeppel and Akira Omaki.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152016

9781282152014

1282152017

9789027291332

9027291330

OCLC:

608622269