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This book correlates English-speaking children's brain development
and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes
from children's books. Drawing from the most current research on
the developing brain, the author demonstrates how language
acquisition is exclusively interactive, and highlights the benefit
that accrues when that interaction includes the exploratory
language play found in early childhood literature. Through
discussions of specific domains of grammar, the relation of these
domains to children's literature through scaffolding, and the
resultant linguistic and cognitive advantages for the child, this
volume offers an innovative approach to early brain maturation.
Language is a natural resource: Power and vulnerability are
associated with access to language, just as to food and water. In
this new book, a linguist and philosopher elucidate why language is
so powerful, illuminate its very real social and political
implications, and make the case for linguistic equality-equality
among languages and equality in access to/knowledge of language and
its use-as a human right and tool to prevent violence and
oppression. Students and instructors will find this accessible,
interdisciplinary text invaluable for courses that explore how
language reflects power structures in linguistics,
philosophy/ethics, and cognitive science/psychology.
This book correlates English-speaking children's brain development
and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes
from children's books. Drawing from the most current research on
the developing brain, the author demonstrates how language
acquisition is exclusively interactive, and highlights the benefit
that accrues when that interaction includes the exploratory
language play found in early childhood literature. Through
discussions of specific domains of grammar, the relation of these
domains to children's literature through scaffolding, and the
resultant linguistic and cognitive advantages for the child, this
volume offers an innovative approach to early brain maturation.
Language is a natural resource: Power and vulnerability are
associated with access to language, just as to food and water. In
this new book, a linguist and philosopher elucidate why language is
so powerful, illuminate its very real social and political
implications, and make the case for linguistic equality-equality
among languages and equality in access to/knowledge of language and
its use-as a human right and tool to prevent violence and
oppression. Students and instructors will find this accessible,
interdisciplinary text invaluable for courses that explore how
language reflects power structures in linguistics,
philosophy/ethics, and cognitive science/psychology.
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