EAN: 9783110992038

WHAT IT TAKES TO TALK - PAUL IBBOTSON KARTONIER...

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the
idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic
phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory  attention  inhibition 
categorisation  analogy and social cognition - the book examines how they shape the development
of sounds  words and grammar. The unfolding cognitive and social world of the child interacts
with  constrains  and predicts language use at its deepest levels. The conclusion is that
language is special  not because it is an encapsulated module separate from the rest of
cognition  but because of the forms it can take rather than the parts it is made of  and
because it could be nature's finest example of cognitive recycling and reuse.

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