The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning /
The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning takes a fresh look at imitation in the wake of more than twenty years of highly productive research on child language acquisition. The book presents recent work in language acquisition by experts in first language acquistion, cognitive child developme...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1989.
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| Series: | Springer series in language and communication ;
24. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Contents: A Fresh Look at Imitation in Language Learning
- On Linking Nonverval Imitation, Representation, and Language Learning in the First Two Years of Life
- Individual and Dyadic Patterns of Imitation: Cognitive and Social Aspects
- Imitativeness: A Trait or a Skill?- Imitation in Mother-Child Conversations: A Focus on the Mother
- Bidirectional Effects of Imitation and Repetition in Conversation: A Synthesis Within a Cognitive Model
- Imitation: A Bootstrap for Learning to Speak?- Imitation and the Construction of Long Utterances
- A Biological Basis for Individual Differences in Learning to Speak?- The Phylogenetic Processes of Verbal Language Imitation
- Observational Learning and Language Acquisition: Principles of Learning, Systems, and Tasks
- The Fuzzy Set Called "Imitations"
- Implications for Language Acquisition Models of Children's and Parent's Variations in Imitation
- Author Index
- Subject Index.