Foundations of Language Development
A Multidisciplinary Approach
- 1st Edition - May 12, 2014
- Editors: Eric H. Lenneberg, Elizabeth Lenneberg
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 2 5 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 6 7 8 8 - 3
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Request a sales quoteFoundations of Language Development: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Volume 1 provides information pertinent to the important discoveries and issues in the area of language development. This book covers important topics, including language policy, language rehabilitation, and language in the classroom. Organized into three parts encompassing 19 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the relationship between animal communication and language proper. This text then examines the early metaphysical views as to the origin of speech and explores the probable nature of the language employed by early man. Other chapters consider the growing conception that language is essentially a localizable cerebral function. This book discusses as well the shortcomings of speech as a means of human communication. The final chapter deals with a comparison of child language with deteriorated language in senile dementia. This book is a valuable resource for linguists and readers who are faced with practical decisions concerning language.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Contents of Volume 2
I. Preliminaries
1. Language
Communication in Animals and in Man
Hypotheses as to the Origins of Language
The History of Ideas Underlying Thinking and Speech
Language as a Function of the Brain
Linguistics and Semiology
The Inadequacy of Verbal Symbols as Tools of Thought
The Future of Language
References
2. The Concept of Language Differentiation
The Nature of Language
Relations and Computations
Continuities as Proper Psychological and Physiological Correlates
Linguistic Categories Are Relationships; They Are Definable Only Contextually
Semantic and Syntactic Properties Have a Common Origin in Ontogeny
Differentiation in the Growth of Vocabulary
Conclusion
References
3. Some Problems in Linguistic Theory
4. The Heuristic Principle in the Perception, Emergence, and Assimilation of Speech
Psycholinguistic Rules and Plans
Alternative Approaches
References
II. Natural History
5. A Zoologist's View of Some Language Phenomena with Particular Emphasis on Vocal Learning
Introduction
The Comparative Analysis of Vocal Communication
The Role of Learning in Vocal Ontogeny
Predispositions Brought to the Task of Vocal Learning
The Origins of Vocal Learning
Why Did Not Other Primates Learn to Speak?
The Neural Substrate of Vocal Behavior
Summary
References
6. Brain Development in Relation to Language
Shortcomings of Linguistic Analysis
From Neurogenotype to Neurophenotype
Functional Regulation in the Developing Cerebral Cortex
Synaptic Stability and Lability
Synaptic Disconnection, Reconnection, and Malconnection
Conclusion
References
7. Myelogenetic Correlates of the Development of Speech and Language
Introduction
Myelogenesis of the Visual and Acoustic Pathways
Myelogenetic Correlates of the Development of Speech and Language
Acknowledgements
References
8. The Ontogeny of Cerebral Dominance in Man
Introduction
The Development of Handedness
The Lateralization of Speech
Specific Educational Backwardness
Conclusions
References
III. Ontogeny
9. Theories of Phonological Development
Introduction
Requirements for a Theory of Phonological Development
Behaviorist Theories
Structuralist Theories
Natural Phonology Theory
Prosodic Theory
Conclusions
Bibliography
10. Phonemicization and Symbolization in Language Development
Introduction
Crying
Development of Phonatory-Articulatory-Auditory Mechanisms During the Period of Babbling as One Kind of Circular Reaction
Reorganization of Babbling Phonatory-Articulatory-Auditory Mechanisms and Their Application to Language
Development of Phonemicization and Symbolization
References
11. Early Semantic Development in Child Language
Introduction
Context and Meaning of Early Utterances
Performative Structures
Optional Semantic Mechanisms
Conclusion
References
12. Grammatical Development—The First Steps
The Nature of the Child's Early Utterances
The Nature of Word Order Rules
Word Classes
Learning Mechanisms
References
13. The Role of Cognitive Structures in Language Acquisition
Introduction: Cognitive and Linguistic Development
Cognitive Structures
Representation
Meaning
Grammar
Language Acquisition
An Experimental Approach
References
14. Learning How to Mean
Introduction
Phase I: Functional Origins
Phase II: The Transition
Phase III : Into Language
Summary of Functional Development
Conclusion
References
15. Cross-Linguistic Similarities at Two Stages of Syntactic Development
Introduction
Plan of Analysis
Early Stage I
Late Stage I
Summary
References
16. On the Nature of Talk to Children
Structural Characteristics of Input
Feedback Characteristics of Input
Input from Adults Versus Input from Children
References
17. The Early Development of the Mother Tongue
Evidence for Universal Sequences
Determinants of Order of Acquisition
What Impels Development?
Environmental Assistance
References
18. Cognitive Processes and Language Ability in the Severely Retarded
Introduction
Learning and Language in the Retarded
Concluding Observations
References
19. Some Aspects of Language in Various Forms of Senile Dementia (Comparisons with Language in Childhood)
Introduction
Language Disturbances Due to Memory Failure
Disturbances in the Use and Function of Language
Semantic and Syntactic Language Disturbances Closely Correlated with the Subject's Operational Level
Language Disturbances Clinically Resembling Those of Aphasia Due to Circumscribed Lesions
Verbal Stereotypy and Iteration Appearing in Cases of Neurological Disorganization
Summary and Conclusions
References
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 372
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 12, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483242590
- eBook ISBN: 9781483267883
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