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Putting the Child (Back) into the Study of Language Acquisition
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Abstract:
A cold wind has blown down from the Northeast, casting a chill on the study of language acquisition: In research driven by adult linguistic theory and, in particular, the linguistic theories of MIT, it is a device that acquires a language, not a child, and language is separate from the rest of cognition and human development. The purpose of my presentation will be to 'put the child back into the study of language acquisition' by showing how language is integrated with other behaviors, and the development of language connects with other aspects of children's development. I begin with a brief review of how the focus shifted from a child to a device in the last generation of language acquisition research and theory. I then present a developmental model of language acquisition based on the young child's intentionality (Bloom,1993a, 1997, Bloom & Beckwith, 1989) and use the model to interpret results from some current research. The research findings show how children's language connects with their affective, ...
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Child development; Children--Language; Language acquisition
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URL: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8PC3F2F
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8pc3f2f
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