Language Development

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 239-257

  Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central theoretical issue in study of language acquisition in what ways children are biologically prepared for process; Children, using syntactic symbols as word order and case marking to syntactically mark roles in these events; Human infants, 10 12 months of age cooperative communication by means of pointing gestures; Language acquisition processes and intention reading and cultural learning; Language development human communication working in a unique way; Learning, becoming a competent speaker of a language during early childhood; Ontogenetically, children hearing individual utterances re constructing abstract constructions of language; Schematization and analogy young children, hearing and using same utterances repeated with systematic variations; Theories based mainly in childhood cognitive development usage based theories, or constructivist theories; Usage based theories, children biologically prepared for language acquisition

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EID: 84886201185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325485.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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