Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development

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Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evolving fields of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development. At first sight recent advances in the two areas seem to have moved in opposing directions: the study of language acquisition has been especially concerned with diversity, explaining how children learn languages of widely different types, while the study of cognitive development has focused on uniformity, clarifying how children build on fundamental, presumably universal concepts. This book brings these two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue, suggesting a new synthesis in which the process of language acquisition may interact with early cognitive development. It provides original empirical contributions, based on a variety of languages, populations and ages, and theoretical discussions that cut across the disciplines of psychology, linguistics and anthropology.

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'This thought-provoking book will challenge many existing preconceptions about the relationship between language and thought.' The Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute

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Preface
Introduction
Foundational Issues
The mosaic evolution of cognitive and linguistic ontogeny
Theories, language, and culture: Whorf without wincing
Initial knowledge and conceptual change: space and number
Constraints on Word Learning?
How domain-general processes may create domain-specific biases
Perceiving intentions and learning words in the second year of life
Roots of word learning
Entities, Individuation, and Quantification
Whorf versus continuity theorists: bringing data to bear on the debate
Individuation, relativity, and early word learning
Grammatical categories and the development of classification preferences: a comparative approach
Person in the language of singletons, siblings, and twins
Early representation for all, each, and their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese Patricia
Children's weak interpretations of universally quantified questions
Relational Concepts in Form-Function Mapping
Emergent categories in first language acquisition
Form-function relations: how do children find out what they are?
Cognitive-conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes: the development of time concepts and verb tense
Shaping meanings for language: universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categories
Learning to talk about motion UP and DOWN in Tzeltal: is there a language-specific bias for verb learning?
Finding the richest path: language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan)
Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications for language learning
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