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The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Essays in Honor of Roger Brown book cover

1st Edition

The Development of Language and Language Researchers Essays in Honor of Roger Brown

Edited By Frank S. Kessel Copyright 1988
436 Pages
by Psychology Press

436 Pages
by Psychology Press

436 Pages
by Psychology Press
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First published in 1988. This is a collection of essays that were presented at or generated afterwards at a meeting on language acquisition Society Development in April 1981: a symposium on “The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Whatever Happened to Linguistic Theory?” in Boston.

Contents: F. Kessel, On Words and People: An Introduction to this Collection. D.I. Slobin, From the Garden of Eden to the Tower of Babel. M. Bowerman, Inducing the Latent Structure of Language. J. de Villiers, Faith, Doubt and Meaning. C. Hanlon, The Emergence of Set-Relational Quantifiers in Early Childhood. E. Wanner, The Parser's Architecture. S. Pinker, Learnability Theory and the Acquisition of a First Language. M. Maratsos, Crosslinguistic Analysis, Universals, and Language Acquisition. U. Bellugi, The Acquisition of a Spatial Language. L.A. Petito, "Language" in the Prelinguistic Child. R.F. Cromer, The Cognition Hypothesis Revisited. H. Tager-Flusberg, On the Nature of Language Acquisition Disorder: The Example of Autism. J.B. Gleason, Language and Socialization. C.B. Cazden, Environmental Assistance Revisited: Variation and Functional Equivalence. K. Hakuta, Why Bilinguals? L.M. Coleman, Language and Evolution of Identity and Self- Concept. D.C Rubin, Learning Poetic Language. E. Winner, H. Gardner, L. Silberstein, C. Meyer, Creating a World with Words. E. Rosch, Coherences: A Historical View.

Biography

Frank S. Kessel University of Houston

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