LINGUIST List 17.3274

Fri Nov 10 2006

Books: Psycholinguistics: Dunlea

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Message 1: Vision and the Emergence of Meaning: Dunlea
Date: 07-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Vision and the Emergence of Meaning: Dunlea


Title: Vision and the Emergence of Meaning Subtitle: Blind and Sighted Children's Early Language Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Anne Dunlea Dunlea Paperback: ISBN: 0521024633 Pages: 212 Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521024633 Pages: 212 Price: U.K. £ 18.99
Abstract:

The relationship between language and other aspects of conceptualdevelopment is one of the central issues in child language acquisition. Oneview holds that language is a special capacity, separate from other areasof cognition and learning. Another maintains that language is part of alarger, more general cognitive system, and is crucially dependent on othercognitive domains.

Recent research has turned to blind children and their acquisition oflanguage as a way of evaluating whether and how language development relieson the non-linguistic context. Vision and the Emergence of Meaningaddresses this complex problem through a detailed empirical analysis ofearly language development in a group of blind, partially sighted and fullysighted children who took part in a pioneering longitudinal investigationat the University of Southern California. By exploring the strategies whichblind children bring to selected aspects of the language learning task,Anne Dunlea not only identifies some important differences between blindand sighted children, but also offers new insights on semantic andpragmatic development in general. Further, the study demonstrates the roleof conceptual information in language learning and, at a more fundamentallevel, reveals a convergence of early language and conceptual development.

Preface;Acknowledgements;List of symbols;List of codes;1. Introduction;2. Blindness and childhood;3. Methodology and introduction of subjects;4. First words;5. First multi-word utterances;6. Developments in the use of illocutionary force;7. Conclusion;Appendices;References;Indexes.


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

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