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Steps to Language: Toward a Theory of Native Language Acquisition book cover

1st Edition

Steps to Language Toward a Theory of Native Language Acquisition

By I. M. Schlesinger Copyright 1982
346 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1982, Steps to Language was intended as a contribution toward a theory of language acquisition in children. The title may be taken to refer not only to the steps taken by the child toward mastery of the linguistic system but also to those taken by the theorist trying to solve the enigma of how the child achieves this goal. In the first part of the book, the steps taken... Read more

Preface.  Introduction.  Part I  1. The Behaviorist Approach and the Chomskyan Revolution  2. The Methodological Status of Chomsky’s Rationalism  3. The Semantic Approach  4. Cognitive Development and Linguistic Input  Part II  5. Acquisition of Words: The First Steps  6. The Acquisition of Words: Further Steps  7. Acquisition of Relational Categories: The First Steps  8. The Developments of Relational Rules  9. Toward an Adult System.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Izchak Schlesinger was a professor of psycholinguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focused primarily on language acquisition and was presented in a series of books and studies that developed a semantic approach as an alternative to generative linguistics. He also examined the structure of argumentation through an interdisciplinary perspective that drew on Talmudic discourse and was among the first researchers of Israeli Sign Language. In later years, he was awarded the Israel Prize in Psychology for his contributions to the field.

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