Tags: Psychology
Children's Language: Consensus and Controversy
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TITLE : Children's Language: Consensus
and Controversy
ISBN : 9780304706815
AUTHOR : N. R.
Cattell (Author), Ray Cattell (Author)
PUBLISHER : Taylor
FORMAT: Paperback
PAGES : 276
YEAR PUBLICATIONS : 2000
LANGUAGE: English
SUBJECT: Psychology
WEIGHT (KG): 0.4
CONDITION: Used - Good
DESCRIPTION:
How is it that we can all open our mouths and
speak, often at considerable length, without consciously thinking about the
construction of the sentences we are using? And how is it that four-year-old
children can apparently do the same thing? The popular notion of how children
come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then
phrases, then sentences and longer utterances. There is widespread agreement
among linguists that this account is wrong, though there is much less agreement
about what the correct answer is. There are, in fact, numerous ongoing debates
about it. Without pressing dogmatic views about it, this text seeks to give the
reader the necessary background for forming views on the main issues. It
describes the theories that have been most influential during the 20th century,
namely, those of Skinner, Piaget, Halliday, Chomsky and Karmiloff-Smith, as
well as a great deal of research that has been done by linguists and
psychologists. No previous knowledge of linguistics or psychology is assumed.