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How Children Learn to Learn Language (Hardcover, New)
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How Children Learn to Learn Language (Hardcover, New)
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Studies of language acquisition often asume that children will
simply begin to learn language, without questioning what sets the
whole process in motion. In How Children Learn to Learn Language,
Lorraine McCune thoroughly examines the often-neglected topic of
how children discover the possibility of language and demonstrates
that pre-language development involves a dynamic system of social,
cognitive, and vocal variables that come together to enable the
transition to referential language. The relationship with a
caregiver is integral to this development because language is a
system of symbolic communication that can emerge only with
children's recognition that they are separate from others. McCune
sees language learning as constructed equally from needing to
develop meanings and learning to produce the sounds sequences that
represent them. In order for this dual construction to be
effective, however, children must discover their capacity to refer
to objects and events in the world by having their internal states
of focused attention accompanied by an autonomic, physiologically
based vocalization, which is the grunt that results from physical
or mental effort. When the grunt is intensified and directed at a
conversational partner, as when children attempt to convey an
internal state, it becomes their first protoword.
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