What is language development? : rationalist, empiricist, and pragmatist approaches to the acquisition of syntax /

Language development is one of the major battle grounds within the humanities and sciences. This book presents an account of the three dominant theories of language development, providing readers with the information they need in order to make up their own mind about this much-debated issue.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Russell, James, 1948-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Language acquisition. Psycholinguistics. Language Development Psycholinguistics Langage > Acquisition. Psycholinguistique. psycholinguistics. Language acquisition Entwicklung Sprachentwicklung Spracherwerb Syntax Empirismus Pragmatismus Sprachphilosophie Nativismus > Linguistik Rationalismus Taalontwikkeling. Syntaxis. Acquisition du langage. Analyse syntaxique (Linguistique) Grammaire lexicale fonctionnelle. Grammaire générative. Electronic books. Lehrbuch.
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Table of Contents:

Pt. 1. Three psychologies : rationalist, empiricist, and pragmatist
pt. 2. Syntactic nativism : language development within rationalism
pt. 3. Empiricist connectionism as a theory of language development
pt. 4. pragmatist approach to language acquisition.