1st Edition
Language Learning A Special Case for Developmental Psychology?
By Christine J. Howe
Copyright 1993
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, current in the literature for around 30 years at that time, that children could not learn their native language without substantial innate knowledge of its grammatical structure. It is argued that the notion is as problematic for contemporary theories of development as it was for theories of the past. Accepting this,... Read more
Preface. 1. The Case for Innate Knowledge 2. The Contextual Completion of Meaning 3. The Time-scale to Observational Adequacy 4. The Approximation to Psychological Reality 5. The Establishment of an Alternative Theory. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Christine J. Howe
