Language Behaviour: Acquisition and Evolutionary History (Language and Development series) - Hardcover

Narasimha, Roddam

9780761992325: Language Behaviour: Acquisition and Evolutionary History (Language and Development series)

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ISBN 10: 0761992324 ISBN 13: 9780761992325

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1998

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In tracing the process of children′s language acquisition, this book presents the case that first language acquisition by children is a behavioural rather than a grammatical issue.

Language Behaviour explores and integrates several basic issues including: the role played by the language community in the acquisition process; the specific stages in children′s acquisition of language behaviour; and the specific cognitive competencies which are prerequisites for language behaviour acquisition. The author then presents a specific cognitive behavioural model - distinct from the currently prevailing linguistically motivated models - as a framework for understanding these issues in a unified manner. The remainder of the book is devoted to charting the evolutionary history of language behaviour and to discussing important unresolved issues in language behaviour modelling.

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