1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790134403321

Autore

Douglas Susan

Titolo

Understanding actions, states, and events [[electronic resource] ] : verb learning in children with autism / / by Susan Douglas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

1-280-59761-5

9786613627445

1-61451-086-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Studies on language acquisition, , 1861-4248 ; ; 45

Disciplina

401/.93

Soggetti

Language acquisition

Language disorders

Autism in children

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dissertation.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What is autism? -- Chapter 3. Understanding actions, states, and events: Verb learning in children with autism -- Chapter 4. Understanding space and time: Preposition learning in children with autism -- Chapter 5. Verbs of thought, desire, and speech in grammatical development -- Chapter 6. Issues and implications -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism - namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is a profile of verb acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the conversational language of ten children with autism. Douglas examines whether this profile is typical or atypical compared with verb learning in neurotypical children. Verb use is central to linguistic development, and the ability of children with autism to develop and use verb categories is of interest, because verbs also encode information about the number and type of participants and the temporal location of the activity/event. Moreover, the acquisition of verb meanings is often dependent on other cognitive skills, such as the recognition that human beings have beliefs and desires which motivate



their actions. All these are areas which are widely considered problematic for children with autism and continue to generate much discussion among researchers and clinicians. This investigation is among the first studies of its type, offering new insights into the process of language acquisition in autism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815076703321

Autore

Shmueli Ephraim <1908-1988, >

Titolo

The last generation of Jews in Poland / / Efraim Shmueli ; edited and translated from the Hebrew by Gila Shmueli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brookline, Massachusetts : , : Cherry Orchard Books, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-64469-600-2

1-64469-599-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages)

Disciplina

943.847

Soggetti

Jews - Poland - History - 20th century

Jews - Identity

Łódź (Poland) History 20th century

Łódź (Poland) Social life and custorms

Łódź (Poland) Ethnic relations

Łódź (Poland) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Content -- Editor’s Preface -- Author’s Introduction -- Chapter 1. The World of Polish Jews -- Chapter 2. Pilgrimage to the Rebbe -- Chapter 3. Holiness and its Heirs -- Chapter 4. Inside Lodz -- Chapter 5. Lodz Economy and Politics -- Chapter 6. Sanctity and Sin -- Chapter 7. A Town and its Ẓaddik -- Chapter 8. Portrait of a Ḥasidic Rebbe (Admor) -- Chapter 9. Farewell to Aleksander -- Chapter 10. A Hebrew High School in its Heyday -- Chapter 11. My Teachers -- Chapter 12. With the Poet Yiẓḥak Katzenelson -- Chapter 13. The Holocaust Poet -- Chapter 14. A Small Town in Poland -- Chapter 15.



Return to Poland -- Chapter 16. Poland’s Five Great Changes—and One Fixation -- Notes -- Glossary -- About the Author— Efraim Shmueli (1908–1988) -- List of Photographs -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

An amalgam of personal reminiscences of a bright young man with later observations of a mature scholar bring to life the mighty pulsation of Jewish life in Poland in its last two decades of existence, 1919-1939--an extraordinary, perhaps unique, mode of Jewish life in the diaspora.