Our journey to language begins before birth, as babies in the womb
hear clearly enough to distinguish their mother's voice. Canvassing
a broad span of experimental and theoretical approaches, this book
introduces new ways of looking at language development.
A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration, "Pathways to
Language" balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with
the fresh perspective of a younger colleague prepared to challenge
current popular positions in these debates. The result is an
unusually subtle, even-handed, and comprehensive overview of the
theory and practice of language acquisition, from fetal speech
processing to the development of child grammar to the sophisticated
linguistic accomplishments of adolescence, such as engaging in
conversation and telling a story.
With examples from the real world as well as from the
psychology laboratory, Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith
look in detail at the way language users appropriate words and
grammar. They present in-depth evaluations of different theories of
language acquisition. They show how adolescent usage has changed
the meaning of certain phrases, and how modern living has led to
alterations in the lexicon. They also consider the phenomenon of
atypical language development, as well as theoretical issues of
nativism and empiricism and the specificity of human language.
Their nuanced and open-minded approach allows readers to survey the
complexity and breadth of the fascinating pathways to language
acquisition.
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