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Language in Primates
Perspectives and Implications
Häftad, 1983
1098 kr
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This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Publication of the book would not have been possible without the support given to the Symposium by …
Cognition and Sentence Production
A Cross-Linguistic Study
Av S.N. Sridhar
Inbunden, 1988
1067 kr
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The developments in linguistic theory over the last three decades have given us a better understanding of the formal properties of language. However, as the truism goes, language does not exist in a vacuum. It in teracts with a cognitive system that involves much more than language and functions …
Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning
Av Gisela E. Speidel, Keith E. Nelson
Inbunden, 1989
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The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning takes a fresh look at imitation in the wake of more than twenty years of highly productive research on child language acquisition. The book presents recent work in language acquisition by experts in first language acquistion, cognitive child …
Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning
Av Gisela E. Speidel, Keith E. Nelson
Häftad, 2012
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In this book we take a fresh look at imitation. With the knowledge of some 20 years of research after Chomsky's initial critique of the behavioristic approach to language learning, it is time to explore imitation once again. How imitation is viewed in this book has changed greatly since the 1950s …
Phonological Awareness in Reading
The Evolution of Current Perspectives
Av Diane J. Sawyer, Barbara J. Fox
Häftad, 2012
537 kr
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In this volumume prominent scholars from different culturaland linguistic backgrounds are brought together to reviewthe empirical studies on the ability to reflect upon andmanipulate the phonemic segments of speech, and to presenttheir insights on the relationship of phonological aware-ness to the …
Cognition and Sentence Production
A Cross-Linguistic Study
Av S.N. Sridhar
Häftad, 2011
1067 kr
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The developments in linguistic theory over the last three decades have given us a better understanding of the formal properties of language. However, as the truism goes, language does not exist in a vacuum. It in teracts with a cognitive system that involves much more than language and functions …
Cognition, Metacognition, and Reading
Av Donna-Lynn Forrest-Pressley, T. Gary Waller
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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We had our first conversation about cognition, metacognition, and reading in September of 1976. Our particular concern was with reading and learning to read, and what, if anything, meta cognition might have to do with it all. We didn't really know much about metacognition then, of course, but then …
Language Awareness and Learning to Read
Av J. Downing, R. Valtin
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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During the 1970s there was a rapid increase in interest in metacognition and metalinguistics. The impetus came from linguistics, psychology, and psycho linguistics. But with rather unusual rapidity the work from these scientific dis ciplines was taken over in education. This new direction in …
Young Children’s Knowledge of Relational Terms
Some Ifs, Ors, and Buts
Av Lucia A. French, Katherine Nelson
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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An appreciation of temporal and logical relationships is one of the essential and defining features of human cognition. A central question in developmental psy chology, and in the philosophical speculations out of which psychology evolved, has been how children come to understand temporal and …
Sun is Feminine
A Study on Language Acquisition in Bilingual Children
Häftad, 2012
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Lisa is 4 years and 5 months old and Giulia 3 years and 4 months. One morning, the girls' father is taking them to nursery school. L: ... e bravissima, ha riscaldato l'auto. E' bravissima, vera? In praising the sun for having warmed up the car, Lisa has referred to it in the feminine gender, as in …
Child’s Conception of Language
Av A. Sinclair, R. J. Jarvella m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
551 kr
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It is obvious that the growing child manifests an increasing understanding of his language and facility to use it. A major part of the child lan guage literature is concerned with the child's developing linguistic and communicative competence. Scattered evidence also shows, however, that children …
Retrieval from Semantic Memory
Häftad, 2011
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The area of concern to Dr. Wietske Noordman~Vonk has been variously seen as an aspect of long-term memory [F. I], secondary memory [F. 2], memory without record [F. 3], and semantic memory [F. 4J, the latter term being the one pre ferred by Dr. Noordman-Vonk herself. This proliferation of …
Inferring from Language
Häftad, 2011
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In the study of human thought there could hardly be a more fundamental con cern than language and reasoning. In the tradition of Western philosophy, humans are distinguished by their ability to speak and to think rationally. And language is often considered a prerequisite for rational thought. If …
Developing Grammars
The Acquisition of German Syntax by Foreign Workers
Av Willemijn M. Klein, N. Dittmar
Häftad, 2011
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This study deals with variation in grammar both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. In Part I (Chaps. 1-4), an attempt is made to char acterize this phenomenon within the broader context of what might be called the "fluctuating character of natu'ral language", and to develop …
Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood
Av M. Miller
Häftad, 2011
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This monograph originated as an interim report on the research project Cog- nitive and Social Determinants on Language Acquisition which I conducted under the auspices of the German Department of the University of Frankfurt from September 1971 until the end of 1976. Since November 1972 this project …
Semantics from Different Points of View
Av R. Bäuerle, U. Egli m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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This volume contains the papers read at the conference on 'Semantics from different points of view' that took place at Konstanz University in Septem- ber 1978. This interdisciplinary conference Vias organized by the':Sonderfor- schungsbereich 99 - Linguistik' and sponsored by the Deutsche …
Speech Act Classification
A Study in the Lexical Analysis of English Speech Activity Verbs
Häftad, 2011
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This book presents a new classification of speech acts. It is an alter native to all previously published classifications of speech acts. The classification proposed here is based on an extensive set of data, name lyon all the verbs designating linguistic activities and aspects thereof. A …
Development of Metalinguistic Abilities in Children
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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Not very many years ago, it was common for language researchers and theorists to argue that language development was somehow special and separate from other aspects of development. It was a period when the "1 ittle 1 inguist" view of language development was common, and much discussion was devoted …
Modelling Language Behaviour
Häftad, 2011
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This book studies language behaviour in the larger context of modelling or ganismic behaviour more generally. It starts out from the basic premise that what is characteristic of organismic behaviour is that an organism uses its behavioural acts to accomplish something in its interactions with the …
Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning
Av T. B. Seiler, W. Wannenmacher
Häftad, 2011
1067 kr
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This volume owes its existance to many different sources and influ ences. It is based on a meeting that took place from April 30 to May 2, 1982 at the University of Technology in Darmstadt. The idea for that meeting came while we were elaborating a research program on concept development and the …
Prosody: Models and Measurements
Häftad, 2011
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Prosody: Models and Measurements is the fruit of a three-day workshop held in Paris in April, 1982. The workshop was one of a series which is sponsored by the Maison des Sciences de I'Homme under the auspices of the European Psycho linguistics Association, and which aims to bring together workers …
Metalinguistic Awareness in Children
Theory, Research, and Implications
Häftad, 2011
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In the past fi fteen years there has been a growi ng interest in the development of children's awareness of language as an object in itself -- a phenomenon now generally referred to as metal inguistic awareness. Until the publication of an earlier volume in the Springer Series in Language and …
Dynamic Aspects of Language Processing
Focus and Presupposition
Av Johannes Engelkamp, H. D. Zimmer
Häftad, 2011
551 kr
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This book deals with the conditions and the consequences of the production of different syntactic sentence structures. During the sixties the syntactic structure of sentences was one of the most intensively studied topics in psycholinguistic research. The dominant interest did not, however, lie in …
Acquisition of Gender
A Study of English and German
Häftad, 2011
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This study of gender was conceived when I first took up the position of lecturer in linguistics at the University of Tiibingen in 1975. My particular in terest in gender arose out of the work with German children and adults con ducted in the context of preparing my doctoral dissertation for the …
Epistemic Meaning
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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This volume is a revised and extended edition of Epistemische Bedeutung (Doherty 1985). The German and the English versions dif fer in a number of aspects, only two of which can be attributed to the difference between German and English: A number of com binatorial options of epistemic particles …
Written World
Studies in Literate Thought and Action
Av Roger Säljö
Häftad, 2012
537 kr
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The chapters of this volume were originally contributions pre- sented at a seminar entitled "The Written Code and Conceptions of Reality" held on the island of Sydkoster in August, 1985. The seminar was financed by a grant to the editor from The Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and …
Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence
Häftad, 2011
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It is often assumed that metalinguistic performance (e.g., detection of ambiguity, judgments of grammaticality) straightforwardly reflects linguistic knowledge. The inadequacies of such an assumption are explored in this volume, which documents the subtleties of the relationship between …
Dimensional Adjectives
Grammatical Structure and Conceptual Interpretation
Av Manfred Bierwisch, Ewald Lang
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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The present volume is the result of a project which concentrated on a selected subset of linguistic knowledge with the aim of giving a systematic account of the various aspects of structure and process in this subset and the interpretation of these. The subset that for a number of reasons appeared …
From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children
Av Virginia Volterra, Carol J. Erting
Häftad, 2011
1279 kr
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Virginia Volterra and Carol Erting have made an important contribu tion to knowledge with this selection of studies on language acquisi tion. Collections of studies clustered more or less closely around a topic are plentiful, but this one is 1 nique. Volterra and Erting had a clear plan in mind …
Lectures on Language Performance
Av C.E. Osgood
Häftad, 2012
551 kr
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Titling this book Lectures on Language Performance was not done to be cleverly "eye-catching"-the title is quite literally appropriate. With minor adaptations for a general reading audience, the eight chapters in this volume are the actual lectures I gave as the Linguistic Society of America …
