What it takes to talk: exploring developmental cognitive linguistics

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, attention, inhibition, categorisation, analogy and soci...

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Main Author: Ibbotson, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton [2020]
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] Band 64
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Summary:This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, attention, inhibition, categorisation, analogy and social cognition - the book examines how they shape the development of sounds, words and grammar. The unfolding cognitive and social world of the child interacts with, constrains, and predicts language use at its deepest levels. The conclusion is that language is special, not because it is an encapsulated module separate from the rest of cognition, but because of the forms it can take rather than the parts it is made of, and because it could be nature’s finest example of cognitive recycling and reuse
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 224 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110647914
DOI:10.1515/9783110647914

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