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How children learn to learn language
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCune, Lorraine, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language acquisition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 274 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What are the processes by which children acquire language? This volume explores that question and demonstrates that pre-language development involves a dynamic system of social, cognitive, and vocal variables that come together to enable the transition to referential language.
- Contents:
- A perspective
- Primary relationships and the symbol situation
- The first phase
- Cognitive background for language
- Motion events, dynamic event words, and the transition to verbs
- Representational play and language
- The vocal story
- Pre-linguistic communication : grunts as a gateway to language
- Dynamic systems in language development and language production.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199870202 (ebook) :
- 0199870209 (ebook) :
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