MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aP118$b.C384 2000
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aCattell, N. R.
245 10 $aChildren's language :$bconsensus and controversy /$cRay Cattell.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bCassell,$c2000.
300 $ax, 276 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-272) and indexes.
505 0 $aGetting to rub two words together (Getting started with language) -- Catching fire (starting to make fast progress) -- Do we teach children to speak? (B.F. Skinner and behaviourism) -- Learning through touching and feeling (Jean Piaget: learning is based on handling objects) -- What goes on in the mind? (Mentalism as a school of thought. Noam Chomsky) -- A close look at Chomsky's theories (Some of Chomsky's work on language acquisition) -- Do we help children to speak? ("Motherese" or child-directed speech) -- Learning how to mean (Michael Halliday's views on how language develops) -- The two hemispheres of the brain - A (Their functions in relation to language) -- The two hemispheres of the brain - B (Modern discoveries about them) -- The bounds of language acquisition (What is and what isn't natural language acquisition?) -- Was Dr. Dolittle lying? (Animals and language) -- "Bootstrapping" - A (New knowledge about infant knowledge) -- "Bootstrapping" - B (Bootstrapping in vocabulary) -- The best of both worlds? (The work of Annette Karmiloff-Smith) -- Conclusion (Drawing the threads together).
650 0 $aLanguage acquisition.
650 0 $aChildren$xLanguage.
650 0 $aLangage$xAcquisition.
994 $aE0$bXIM