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Useful Weblinks Language Acquisition The CHILDES database contains transcripts from approximately 100
major research projects, online access to many published papers,
valuable links to further resources and an electronic noticeboard,
Info-CHILDES, which promotes the discussion of issues relating to
child language. Ages & Stages - Developmental Milestones for Receptive and
Expressive Language Acquisition by speech and language therapist,
Dr. Caroline Bowen. The complete teachers' guide, 'Introducing the grammar of talk',
can be downloaded in PDF format from the website of the UK Qualifications
and Curriculum Authority. Online papers by Professor Brian MacWhinney on various issues in
language learning and processing. Paul Bloom's 'Children think before they speak'
(Nature, Vol. 430, 22 July 2004) is a fascinating paper which looks
at the issue of whether thought precedes the acquisition of language,
or whether certain concepts are language-specific. The Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the
Max Planck Institute investigates cognitive and social-cognitive
processes in humans and their nearest primate relatives. The publications
section has many online papers relevant to language acquisition.
Michael Tomasello's homepage at the Max Planck Institute has an
extensive bibliography of his research on language acquisition,
social cognition, social learning, and communication. His current
research focuses on the comparative communicative and cognitive
abilities of human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes.
Two of his most recent papers, 'Understanding and sharing intentions:
The origins of cultural cognition' and 'Acquiring linguistic constructions'
are currently available online. Dr. Rebecca Wheeler's page on the National Council of Teachers
of English (NCTE) web site has two of her articles available online,
'Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the
Dialectally Diverse Classroom' and 'Codeswitch to Teach
Standard English' Working Papers in Educational Linguistics (WPEL) at the University
of Pennsylvania, has a browsable database of research articles,
including ones on bilingual education, and classroom research on
language and literacy. Most of the articles are available for download
in PDF format. 'Preverbal Communication' by Andrew Lock, School of
Psychology, Massey University, focuses on age-related changes during
the preverbal period in areas such as such as turn taking, joint
attention, and gestures (particularly the pointing gesture) and
two theoretical issues: the 'nature' of preverbal communication
and the social construction of early abilities through adult-infant
interaction. Linguistics World is an online archive of press articles related
to English language and linguistics in general. There are several
articles on child language in the message archives and links to
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