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Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Study of Language

Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

• Edited by Elena Lieven, Jiansheng Guo, Nancy Budwig, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Kei Nakamura, Seyda Ozcaliskan

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• Price: $89.95
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 584
• Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Publication Date: 17th October 2008 (Available for Pre-order)
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-5999-7

About the Book

Dan Isaac Slobin has been a major intellectual and creative force in the field of child language development, linguistics and psycholinguistics for the past 40 years. It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of his contribution. In this volume, conceived as a tribute to Slobin's enormous intellectual contribution, researchers take up the challenge of language differences to forward research in the major areas with which Slobin has been concerned throughout his career: (i) language learning from a crosslinguistic perspective (spoken and sign languages), (ii) the integration of language specific factors in narrative skill, (iii) theoretical issues in typology, language development and language change, and (iv) the relationship between language and cognition.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Section 1: Language Learning in Crosslinguistic Perspective Section 2: Narratives and their Development: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Pragmatic Issues Section 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Typology, Language Development and Language Change
Section 4: Language and Cognition: Universals and Typological Comparisons

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