Specific language impairment: a convenient
... than by what it is. The recent decision to not include SLI in DSM-5 provoked much debate and concern from researchers and clinicians. Aims: To explore how the term ‘specific language impairment’ emerged, to consider how disorders, including SLI, are generally defined and to explore how societal chan ...
... than by what it is. The recent decision to not include SLI in DSM-5 provoked much debate and concern from researchers and clinicians. Aims: To explore how the term ‘specific language impairment’ emerged, to consider how disorders, including SLI, are generally defined and to explore how societal chan ...
A Model of Grammatical Category Acquisition in the Spanish
... effectiveness based on word class, corpus size, utterance boundaries, frequency versus occurrence information, removing function words, prior knowledge of other categories, and child-directed versus adult-adult speech. Redington et al. showed that a distributional analysis is highly informative of s ...
... effectiveness based on word class, corpus size, utterance boundaries, frequency versus occurrence information, removing function words, prior knowledge of other categories, and child-directed versus adult-adult speech. Redington et al. showed that a distributional analysis is highly informative of s ...
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... communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about and attitudes towards life.” In The Extended Mind [1] I extended the “language is an organism” hypothesis of Christiansen [4] and Deacon [5] to culture, and then by extension to technology and science. Because culture is essentially symbolic— ...
... communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about and attitudes towards life.” In The Extended Mind [1] I extended the “language is an organism” hypothesis of Christiansen [4] and Deacon [5] to culture, and then by extension to technology and science. Because culture is essentially symbolic— ...
Traditions of Biolinguistics
... In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and neuroscience, to provide a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman argues forcibly t ...
... In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and neuroscience, to provide a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman argues forcibly t ...
Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution
... This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of language acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more tractable, form. In essence, the child faces a problem of induction, where the objective is to coordinate with others (C-induction), rather than to mod ...
... This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of language acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more tractable, form. In essence, the child faces a problem of induction, where the objective is to coordinate with others (C-induction), rather than to mod ...
Language, gesture, skill - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
... Their success criteria mirror others found in the literature (because they are partially borrowed from earlier specifications). These success conditions fall short of full empirical testability, but if met, they push a hypothesis beyond mere story telling. Even so, aside from some partial consensus ...
... Their success criteria mirror others found in the literature (because they are partially borrowed from earlier specifications). These success conditions fall short of full empirical testability, but if met, they push a hypothesis beyond mere story telling. Even so, aside from some partial consensus ...
Language, gesture, skill: the co-evolutionary
... Their success criteria mirror others found in the literature (because they are partially borrowed from earlier specifications). These success conditions fall short of full empirical testability, but if met, they push a hypothesis beyond mere story telling. Even so, aside from some partial consensus ...
... Their success criteria mirror others found in the literature (because they are partially borrowed from earlier specifications). These success conditions fall short of full empirical testability, but if met, they push a hypothesis beyond mere story telling. Even so, aside from some partial consensus ...
The Evolution of Language - Linguistics and English Language
... results suggest that the difference between these two species does indeed hinge on a recursive capacity. This approach, which puts forward a minimal account of human uniqueness, is not without its critics. For example, Pinker & Jackendoff (2005) argue that there is much more that is special to langu ...
... results suggest that the difference between these two species does indeed hinge on a recursive capacity. This approach, which puts forward a minimal account of human uniqueness, is not without its critics. For example, Pinker & Jackendoff (2005) argue that there is much more that is special to langu ...
The shades of social. A discussion of The social origins of language
... away from, for example, the anatomical prerequisites for speech to questions regarding the “language faculty” – symbolization, mimesis, theory of mind and other cognitive underpinnings of language. But now, the “social turn” is taking it one step further: not only by putting the ontogeny and phylog ...
... away from, for example, the anatomical prerequisites for speech to questions regarding the “language faculty” – symbolization, mimesis, theory of mind and other cognitive underpinnings of language. But now, the “social turn” is taking it one step further: not only by putting the ontogeny and phylog ...
The Consequences of Language
... developments surely justify the reopening of the investigation of the origin and evolution of language. It may be noted that in the biblical version of language origins, it was assumed that Adam and Eve (and possibly God) spoke a language quite similar to that spoken today, though we do not know wha ...
... developments surely justify the reopening of the investigation of the origin and evolution of language. It may be noted that in the biblical version of language origins, it was assumed that Adam and Eve (and possibly God) spoke a language quite similar to that spoken today, though we do not know wha ...
The origin of music as seen from evolutionary science and from
... historical time is recapitulated; as Lassus (2005: 52) notes: “The story unfolds in this way as a continuous annexation of the present by the past. The very future appears to have already been consumed.” In a steamy tavern in the jungle river town of Puerto Anunciación down river on the Orinoco, Los ...
... historical time is recapitulated; as Lassus (2005: 52) notes: “The story unfolds in this way as a continuous annexation of the present by the past. The very future appears to have already been consumed.” In a steamy tavern in the jungle river town of Puerto Anunciación down river on the Orinoco, Los ...
ANTHROPOLOGIA INTEGRA
... the communication system become more aware of their partners and, as a result, become more efficient in their progress for sharing information between one another. This allows for effective survival strategies and, due to this excellent communication, social behavior constitutes a pivotal role in ou ...
... the communication system become more aware of their partners and, as a result, become more efficient in their progress for sharing information between one another. This allows for effective survival strategies and, due to this excellent communication, social behavior constitutes a pivotal role in ou ...
Lecture - University College Dublin
... categories, not specific words, and furthermore that they operate on phrases, not individual elements. They also probably have some idea of the types of categories to expect, i.e. they expect something like nouns and verbs to be found. These things may seem fairly simple, but they are extremely powe ...
... categories, not specific words, and furthermore that they operate on phrases, not individual elements. They also probably have some idea of the types of categories to expect, i.e. they expect something like nouns and verbs to be found. These things may seem fairly simple, but they are extremely powe ...
PDF 565k - Signata
... as elaborated in the “developmental stress hypothesis” by Hasselquist. he third is the “learner bottleneck” in cultural transmission across generations, whose powers suice to transform random strings into a shared grammar without either Darwinian selection or reinforcement of outcomes (Kirby 1998; K ...
... as elaborated in the “developmental stress hypothesis” by Hasselquist. he third is the “learner bottleneck” in cultural transmission across generations, whose powers suice to transform random strings into a shared grammar without either Darwinian selection or reinforcement of outcomes (Kirby 1998; K ...
Introduction: Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary
... beginning to provide a picture of the evolutionary history and function of language-related traits. The key benefit of comparative studies is the identification of homologies and analogies: where a language-related trait is exhibited exclusively by a group of closely related species (e.g., all prima ...
... beginning to provide a picture of the evolutionary history and function of language-related traits. The key benefit of comparative studies is the identification of homologies and analogies: where a language-related trait is exhibited exclusively by a group of closely related species (e.g., all prima ...
Cognitive Development in Infancy
... to cognition that focus on changes in the content of children’s knowledge about the world, Piaget argued that it was critical to also consider the changes in the quality of children’s knowledge and understanding as they move from one stage to another. For instance, as they develop cognitively, infan ...
... to cognition that focus on changes in the content of children’s knowledge about the world, Piaget argued that it was critical to also consider the changes in the quality of children’s knowledge and understanding as they move from one stage to another. For instance, as they develop cognitively, infan ...
30 March 2000
... the frequency of occurrence of noun Ni and verb V j, respectively. The factor 1/2 appears because either the noun or the verb is learned in any one of the b learning events. The probability of memorizing a noun or a verb is given by qs. We expect qs to be smaller than q, which simply means that it i ...
... the frequency of occurrence of noun Ni and verb V j, respectively. The factor 1/2 appears because either the noun or the verb is learned in any one of the b learning events. The probability of memorizing a noun or a verb is given by qs. We expect qs to be smaller than q, which simply means that it i ...
The Nature of the Language Faculty and its Implications for
... modern language, it would be a major improvement in communication over primate calls (and this is arguably not far from the status of present-day pidgins and the earliest stages of first and second language acquisition, Bickerton, 1990). On this view, it is plausible that the capacity for syntactic ...
... modern language, it would be a major improvement in communication over primate calls (and this is arguably not far from the status of present-day pidgins and the earliest stages of first and second language acquisition, Bickerton, 1990). On this view, it is plausible that the capacity for syntactic ...
Primary circular reaction
... Language development part of broader process of cognitive development Language is used to express only those meanings the child has already formulated New words learned when they help communicate thoughts and ideas © 2009 Allyn & Bacon Publishers ...
... Language development part of broader process of cognitive development Language is used to express only those meanings the child has already formulated New words learned when they help communicate thoughts and ideas © 2009 Allyn & Bacon Publishers ...
Children`s games as local semiotic play: An ethnographic account.
... rules. The children interactively and reactively shared notions of value and status with each other and explored how these were embedded in language and routines. Playing by the rules The following extract is an example of intensive game playing. I relate it in order to show how the children, absorb ...
... rules. The children interactively and reactively shared notions of value and status with each other and explored how these were embedded in language and routines. Playing by the rules The following extract is an example of intensive game playing. I relate it in order to show how the children, absorb ...
Infant Lab Newsletter 2010_2
... structure of the sentence, and end up ignoring the ‘with.’ To explore this, we used sentences that have both a new noun and a new verb, such as ‘She’s bleaking with the blicket.’ Indeed, when 19-montholds don’t know a verb and have expectations about the type of sentence it is used in, they pay clos ...
... structure of the sentence, and end up ignoring the ‘with.’ To explore this, we used sentences that have both a new noun and a new verb, such as ‘She’s bleaking with the blicket.’ Indeed, when 19-montholds don’t know a verb and have expectations about the type of sentence it is used in, they pay clos ...
Design features of language, animal communication systems
... (Is chimp language creative, rule governed, as children's emerging language is?) Similarities: One-word, multi-word stages similar Creativity (e.g. Washoe's 'water bird') in both systems Differences: Most advanced of chimps reported have syntactic and lexical skills most comparable to thos ...
... (Is chimp language creative, rule governed, as children's emerging language is?) Similarities: One-word, multi-word stages similar Creativity (e.g. Washoe's 'water bird') in both systems Differences: Most advanced of chimps reported have syntactic and lexical skills most comparable to thos ...
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... teleological sense). This was one of the reasons that Eric Lenneberg (1967) chose to include an appendix on generative grammar by Chomsky in his classic Biological Foundations of Language as early as 1967. Or, as Chomsky framed it at the Lenneberg symposium at around the same time — and on later occ ...
... teleological sense). This was one of the reasons that Eric Lenneberg (1967) chose to include an appendix on generative grammar by Chomsky in his classic Biological Foundations of Language as early as 1967. Or, as Chomsky framed it at the Lenneberg symposium at around the same time — and on later occ ...
Chapter 14
... – Expand student utterances by using modeling more elaborate language – Augment or alter classroom language by providing statements that explain a student’s nonverbal behaviors – Allow students opportunity to practice public verbalizations – Keep in mind the need of some students for AAC systems – F ...
... – Expand student utterances by using modeling more elaborate language – Augment or alter classroom language by providing statements that explain a student’s nonverbal behaviors – Allow students opportunity to practice public verbalizations – Keep in mind the need of some students for AAC systems – F ...
Thinking about language: Chomsky – Geoff Poole
... genetically encoded property of the species that is essential to the acquisition of language. 2. The speed and ease of first language acquisition. 3. Uniformity across populations in the rate and stages and acquisition. This suggests that the pace of acquisition is not essentially dictated by extern ...
... genetically encoded property of the species that is essential to the acquisition of language. 2. The speed and ease of first language acquisition. 3. Uniformity across populations in the rate and stages and acquisition. This suggests that the pace of acquisition is not essentially dictated by extern ...