Pathways to Language
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Pathways to Language

From Fetus to Adolescent

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Pathways to Language

From Fetus to Adolescent

About this book

Our journey to language begins before birth, as babies in the womb hear clearly enough to distinguish their mother's voice. Canvassing a broad span of experimental and theoretical approaches, this book introduces new ways of looking at language development.

A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration, Pathways to Language balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague prepared to challenge current popular positions in these debates. The result is an unusually subtle, even-handed, and comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition, from fetal speech processing to the development of child grammar to the sophisticated linguistic accomplishments of adolescence, such as engaging in conversation and telling a story.

With examples from the real world as well as from the psychology laboratory, Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith look in detail at the way language users appropriate words and grammar. They present in-depth evaluations of different theories of language acquisition. They show how adolescent usage has changed the meaning of certain phrases, and how modern living has led to alterations in the lexicon. They also consider the phenomenon of atypical language development, as well as theoretical issues of nativism and empiricism and the specificity of human language. Their nuanced and open-minded approach allows readers to survey the complexity and breadth of the fascinating pathways to language acquisition.

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child’s
native
tongue
and
another
unknown
language.
Again,
the
infant’s
differential
sucking
rates
can
be
analyzed
to
see
not
only
whether
the
baby
is
sensitive
to
such
cross-linguistic
differences,
but
also
which
of
the
two
stimuli
the
baby
prefers
to
hear.
Head-Turn
Preference
Procedure
The
head-turn
preference
procedure
(HPP)
is
used
to
test
infants’
abilities
to
discriminate
between
contrasting
types
of
auditory
stim-
uli.
This
technique
is
only
suitable
for
testing
infants
who
already
have
good
control
over
their
head
movements,
that
is,
those
who
are
four
months
old
or
older.
During
these
experiments,
the
infant
is
seated
either
in
a
special
baby
chair
or
on
the
parent’s
lap,
in
a
three-sided
testing
booth.
The
panels
to
the
right
and
left
of
the
baby
each
contain
a
red
light
in
front
of
a
loudspeaker.
A
green
light
is
mounted
on
the
center
panel,
behind
which
are
hidden
a
computer
terminal
and
a
response
box
operated
by
the
researcher
(see
Figure
2).
A
camera,
linked
to
the
computer,
records
the
infant’s
head
movements.
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researcher
can
monitor
what
is
taking
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1
High-amplitude
sucking
technique

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 What Is Language Acquisition?
  4. 2 Experimental Paradigms for Studying Language Acquisition
  5. 3 Speech Perception in and out of the Womb
  6. 4 Learning about the Meaning of Words
  7. 5 Becoming a Grammatical Being
  8. 6 Beyond the Sentence
  9. 7 Atypical Language Development
  10. 8 Rethinking the Nature-Nurture Debate
  11. Further Readings
  12. Index