LINGUIST List 17.3273

Fri Nov 10 2006

Books: Psycholinguistics: Donaldson

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, Children's Explanations: Donaldson

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Message 1: Children's Explanations: Donaldson
Date: 07-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Children's Explanations: Donaldson


Title: Children's Explanations Subtitle: A Psycholinguistic Study Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Morag L. Donaldson Paperback: ISBN: 0521024005 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 28.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521024005 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 16.99
Abstract:

How and when does the ability to give and understand explanations develop?Morag Donaldson directly addresses this question in the present study,providing evidence from a series of imaginative experiments she carried outwith 3- to 10-year-olds. In contrast to many earlier accounts, shedemonstrates that children can distinguish between cause and effect andamong physical, psychological and logical relations well before the age of7. The study focuses primarily on the linguistic abilities that are neededfor explanation, in particular the understanding of because, so, why?, andhow do you know?, and it makes a substantial contribution to ourunderstanding of the semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives.However, the study also provides valuable insights into children's relatedcognitive abilities. Children's Explanations is a book that will be ofequal interest to cognitive and developmental psychologists and topsycholinguistics, a well as to researchers in education for whom its topicmust be of crucial importance.

List of illustrations;List of tables;Acknowledgements;1. Introduction;2. The development of the causal connectives and of causality: someprevious studies;3. Elicited production studies;4. The empirical mode;5. The intentional mode;6. The deductive mode;7. General discussion;Appendices;Notes;References;Index.


Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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