The onset of language
- Title
- The onset of language / Nobuo Masataka.
- Published by
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Outlining an approach to the development of communicative behavior from early infancy to the onset of single word utterances, Nobuo Masataka's research is rooted in ethology and dynamic action theory. He argues that expressive and communicative actions are organized as a complex and cooperative system with other elements of the infant's physiology, behavior and social environments. This book offers new insights into the precursors of speech and will be of interest to researchers and students of psychology, linguistics and animal behavior biology.
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in cognitive and perceptual development
- Uniform title
- Cambridge studies in cognitive perceptual development
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development of the ability to take turns -- 3. Cooing in three-month-old infants -- 4. Development of vocal imitation -- 5. How infant-directed speech influences infant vocal development -- 6. From laughter to babbling -- 7. Earliest language development in sign language -- 8. From babbling to speaking -- 9. Summary and conclusion.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-272) and index.