Phonological Development [[electronic resource] ] : The First Two Years

• Autore: Vihman Marilyn May
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2013
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (445 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.93
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology; Grammar, Comparative and general; Language acquisition; Language acquisition - Phonology; Languages & Literatures; Philology & Linguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Note on Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Biological Foundations of Language Development; Chomsky and the origins of the LAD and UG; Analysis of an argument; The course of language development; Alternative approaches to Chomskyan biological foundations; Phonological Development: Goals and Challenges; Phonetics and phonology; The interaction of perception and production; Cross-linguistic perspectives; The significance of individual differences; Methodologies: Data sources and theoretical perspectives; Overview ; Chapter 2 Precursors to Language: The First 18 Months of LifeThe Development of Linguistic Form and Function; 1 Early Capacities: Birth to 2 Months; (a) The child as experiencer and communicator; (b) The child as listener and vocalizer; (c) Linked form and function; 2 Early Capacities: 2 to 4 Months; (a) The child as experiencer and communicator; (b) The child as listener and vocalizer; (c) Linked form and function; 3 Early Capacities: 4 to 6 Months; (a) The child as experiencer and actor; (b) The child as listener and vocalizer; 4 First Advances: 6 to 9 Months ; (a) The child as experiencer and actor(b) The child as listener and vocalizer; Attainments of the first 9 months; 5 Bringing the Strands Together: 9 to 12 Months; (a) The child as experiencer and communicator; (b) The child as listener and vocalizer; (c) Linked form and function; 6 Transition to Language use: 12 to 18 Months; (a) The child as experiencer/communicator; (b) The child as listener/speaker; (c) The child as both experiencer/communicator and listener/speaker; Learning Mechanisms; Distributional or statistical learning ; Lexical or symbolic (categorical) learning ('explicit' or 'declarative')Summary: Precursors and the Transition to Language; Chapter 3 Development in Perception: Early Capacities, Rapid Change; Issues that Motivated the Study of Infant Speech Perception; Problems posed by speech perception; Categorical perception; Methods Used to Study Infant Speech Perception; Discrimination: Infant Capacities; Mechanisms Underlying Infant Perception; Discrimination of speech vs. non-speech signals; Speech perception by humans vs. other animals; Within-category discrimination ; Developmental Change in PerceptionDiscrimination of non-native contrasts; What is the role of experience?; 'Perceptual Narrowing': Models of Developmental Change; Perceptual assimilation model; A mechanism for perceptual narrowing; Developmental change in vowel perception; Cross-Modal Perception; Mirror neurons; Summary: The Infant Listener-From Universal to Particular; Chapter 4 Infant Vocal Production; Early Vocal Production; Contemporary models: Goals and methods; The first six months: Stage models; The infant vocal tract; The vocal substrate of speech ; The Social Context, I: Precanonical Period
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on major research developments in the field, Vihman has updated and extensively revised the 1996 edition of her classic text to provide a thorough and stimulating overview of current studies of child production and perception and early word learning. Offers a full survey of the thinking on how babies develop phonological knowledgeProvides a much needed update on the field - one in which this book remains unique, and in which there have also been dramatic developments since the publication of the first editionSurveys what has been learned about phonologic
• Titolo autorizzato: Phonological development
• ISBN: 1-118-34282-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453273603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II