LINGUIST List 9.1430

Tue Oct 13 1998

Books: Available for Review: Language Acquisition

Editor for this issue: Andrew Carnie <carnielinguistlist.org>

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1. Andrew Carnie, Avail for review: Language Acquisition

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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:

Gopnik, Alison and Meltzoff Andrew (1997) Words, Thoughts and Theories.
	MIT Press, Cambridge.

This book articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive
and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like
scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories --
a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad
implications for cognitive science.


	

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