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Oct 1, 2004 · When children acquire a first language, they build on what they know – conceptual information that discriminates and helps create categories for the objects, relations and events they experience. This provides the starting point for language from the age of 12 months on.
- How Language Acquisition Builds on Cognitive Development
Despite arguments for the relative ease of learning common...
- Similarity and The Development of Rules
Study 1 was a baseline study that varied the degree of...
- Object Individuation and Object Identity in Infancy
The last 20 yrs have witnessed important progress in the...
- Early Sensitivity to Language-Specific Spatial Categories in English and Korean
Spontaneous speech data from children learning English and...
- Conceptual Perspective and Lexical Choice in Acquisition
Adult speakers choose among perspectives when they talk,...
- Object Shape, Object Function, and Object Name
T.E. Moore (Ed.), Cognitive development and the acquisition...
- Words as Invitations to Form Categories
We further propose that this initial expectation will become...
- Knowing Versus Naming
We present data from speakers of English, Chinese, and...
- How Language Acquisition Builds on Cognitive Development
Sep 7, 2023 · Language Acquisition in psychology refers to the process by which humans acquire the ability to perceive, produce, and use words to understand and communicate. This innate capacity typically develops in early childhood and involves complex interplay of genetic, cognitive, and social factors.
The development of language and cognition is key to human development. Language is an important means to communicate and code information; it is relevant to knowledge and concept acquisition, to memory performance and development, to problem solving, learning and self-regulation.
Jan 1, 2009 · The aim of the book is twofold as follows: (1) to investigate and connect those aspects of L1 and L2 language acquisition which might be of interest to the target audience, and (2) to relate theories of language acquisition and development to its practice.
This book brings these two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue, suggesting a synthesis in which the process of language acquisition may interact with early cognitive development. It provides empirical contributions based on a variety of languages, populations and ages, and theoretical discussions that cut across the disciplines ...
This chapter provides a brief, non-technical introduction to the strictly linguistic aspects of the evolution of World Englishes: the reasons for the fact that New Englishes have developed distinctive forms of their own, and the processes that have brought these new properties about.
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Jan 1, 2008 · The results show that guided planning can succeed in creating favorable conditions for striking a pedagogical balance between communication and grammar, even with high school learners at incipient levels of proficiency and under conditions that are typical of many foreign language contexts.
