LINGUIST List 11.1077

Thu May 11 2000

Sum: Maternal Input and Cognition

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  • Thora Tenbrink, Maternal Input and Cognition

    Message 1: Maternal Input and Cognition

     Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:26:27 +0200
    From: Thora Tenbrink <tenbrinkinformatik.uni-hamburg.de>
    Subject: Maternal Input and Cognition


    For Query: Linguist 11.947

    Some time ago, I posted a query concerning the investigation of maternal speech in connection with cognitive development. I wish to thank everybody who supplied me with relevant and helpful information and who indicated their interest.

    Here's a list of publications relevant to the topic:

    Flynn, Valerie (1998). Pragmatic Aspects of Mothers' Speech: Consideration of Context, Child Age, Frequency of Utterance, and Attentional Focus. Ph.D Diss., Northern Illinois University, available at www.umi.com

    Kavanaugh, R.D. (1979). Observations on the role of logically constrained sentences in the comprehension of before and after. Journal of Child Language 6, 353-359

    Kearins, J. M (1981) Visual spatial memory in Australian Aboriginal children of desert regions. Cognitive Psychology 13, 434-460

    Nelson, K. (1996) Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind, Cambridge University Press.

    Regier, Terry (1997) Constraints on the learning of spatial terms: A computational investigation. In Medin, D., Schyns, P., and Goldstone, R., editors, Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 36: Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning. pp. 171-217, San Diego: Academic Press.

    Rogers, Don. 1978. Information about word-meanings in the speech of parents to young children. In Robin N. Campbell and Philip T. Smith (eds), Recent advances in the psychology of language. Language Development and Mother-Child Interaction. New York: Plenum Press. (pp 187-198)

    Smiley, P., & Huttenlocher, J. (1995). Conceptual development and the child's early words for events, objects, and persons. In M. Tomasello & E. Merriman (Eds.), Beyond names for things: Young children's acquisition of verbs (pp. 21-62). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    Stoel-Gamon, C. & Scliar-Cabral, L. "Emergence of the reportative function in child speech", in G. Nickel (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th AILA World Congress, HochschulVerlag, Stuttgart, 1976: 389-398.

    Tanz, Christine (1980). Studies in the acquisition of deictic terms. Cambridge University Press.