Bibliograph

Children's language, consensus and controversy, Ray Cattell

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Children's language, consensus and controversy, Ray Cattell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272) and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Children's language

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

41674433

Responsibility statement

Ray Cattell

Sub title

consensus and controversy

Table Of Contents

Getting to rub two words together (Getting started with language) -- Catching fire (starting to make fast progress) -- Do we teach children to speak? (B.F. Skinner and behaviourism) -- Learning through touching and feeling (Jean Piaget: learning is based on handling objects) -- What goes on in the mind? (Mentalism as a school of thought. Noam Chomsky) -- A close look at Chomsky's theories (Some of Chomsky's work on language acquisition) -- Do we help children to speak? ("Motherese" or child-directed speech) -- Learning how to mean (Michael Halliday's views on how language develops) -- The two hemispheres of the brain - A (Their functions in relation to language) -- The two hemispheres of the brain - B (Modern discoveries about them) -- The bounds of language acquisition (What is and what isn't natural language acquisition?) -- Was Dr. Dolittle lying? (Animals and language) -- "Bootstrapping" - A (New knowledge about infant knowledge) -- "Bootstrapping" - B (Bootstrapping in vocabulary) -- The best of both worlds? (The work of Annette Karmiloff-Smith) -- Conclusion (Drawing the threads together)

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