Genie : a psycholinguistic study of a modern-day "wild child" / Susan Curtiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curtiss, Susan, author.

Series:

Perspectives in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics.

Perspectives in Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Language--Case studies.

Children.

Psycholinguistics--Case studies.

Psycholinguistics.

Speech disorders in children--Case studies.

Speech disorders in children.

Language and languages--Physiological aspects--Case studies.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Academic Press, 1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Genie

Contents:

Front Cover; Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day ""Wild Child""; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: CASE HISTORY; Chapter 1. Family Background and Early Childhood; Chapter 2. November 1970-January 1971; Chapter 3. January 1971-June 1971; Chapter 4. June 1971-August 1971; Chapter 5. September 1971-June 1975; 5.1. DELAYED RESPONSES; 5.2. LAZY BEHAVIOR; 5.3. HAPLOLOGIES; 5.4. RITUALISTIC SPEECH; 5.5. ""TUNING IN"" TO LANGUAGE; 5.6. NEW USES FOR LANGUAGE; 5.7. SOUND PRODUCTION; 5.8. GESTURES; 5.9. WORKING WITH GENIE

5.10. AFFECT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTPart II: LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT; Chapter 6. The Data; 6.1. INTERVIEWS WITH GENIE'S MOTHER; 6.2. REPORTS FROM THE DIVISION OF PSYCHIATRY, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL; 6.3. VIDEOTAPES; 6.4. TAPE RECORDINGS; 6.5. OBSERVATIONS OF GENIE'S SPEECH; 6.6. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING; 6.7. LANGUAGE TESTS; 6.8. NEUROLINGUISTIC TESTS; 6.9. WORK WITH WRITTEN LANGUAGE; 6.10. SIGN LANGUAGE; Chapter 7. Phonology : Comprehension and Production; 7.1. RECEPTIVE PHONOLOGY; 7.2. PHONOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; 7.3. SUPRASEGMENTALS; 7.4. SUMMARY

Chapter 8. Syntax, Morphology, Semantics : Comprehension8.1. VIDEOTAPES; 8.2. COMPREHENSION TESTS; 8.3. REAL-LIFE COMPREHENSION; 8.4. CONCLUSION; Chapter 9. Syntax, Morphology, Semantics : Production; 9.1. SYNTAX; 9.2. MORPHOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; 9.3. SEMANTICS; Chapter 10. Genie in Relation to Other Children; 10.1. PHONOLOGY; 10.2. SYNTAX; 10.3. MORPHOLOGY; 10.4. SEMANTICS; 10.5. COMPREHENSION/PRODUCTION; 10.6. COMPETENCE/PERFORMANCE; 10.7. CONCLUSION; Part III: NEUROLINGUISTIC ASPECTS; Chapter 11. Neurolinguistic Aspects; 11.1. THE CRITICAL PERIOD

11.2. GENIE AS A RIGHT-HEMISPHERE LANGUAGE LEARNER11.3. LATERALIZATION; 11.4. GENIE AS A RIGHT-HEMISPHERE THINKER; 11.5. RIGHT-HEMISPHERE SPEECH; 11.6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX I: Comprehension Tests; 1. SIMPLE NEGATION; 2. SIMPLE MODIFICATION; 3. COMPLEX MODIFICATION; 4. PREPOSITIONS IN, ON, UNDER; 5. PREPOSITIONS BEHIND, IN FRONT OF, BESIDE, AND NEXT TO; 6. PREPOSITIONS IN, ON, NEXT TO, UNDER, OVER, IN BACK OF, IN FRONT OF, BEHIND, BESIDE; 7. SINGULAR VERSUS PLURAL IN NOUNS; 8. CONJUNCTION/DISJUNCTION; 9. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS; 10. COMPARATIVE; 11. SUPERLATIVE I; 12. SUPERLATIVE II

13. COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE14. TENSE/ASPECT; 15. BEFORE AND AFTER; 16. SOME, ONE, ALL; 17. PRONOUNS; 18. WORD ORDER; 19. WH-QUESTIONING OF SUBJECT VERSUS OBJECT; 20. COMPLEX SENTENCE PROCESSING; 21. COMPLEX NEGATION; 22. RELATIVE TERMS; 23. MORE VERSUS LESS; 24. MOST, MANY, FEW, FEWEST; 25. SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION TESTS; 26. RECEPTIVE PHONOLOGY; APPENDIX II: Dichotic Listening and Tachistoscopic Tests; I. DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; Il. TACHISTOSCOPIC TESTS; APPENDIX III: Excerpt from Kent (1972); APPENDIX IV: Sketches by Genie; REFERENCES; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4832-1761-2