The genesis of language : a psycholinguistic approach /
edited by Frank Smith and George Miller
- Cambridge : M.I.T. Press, c1966
- xii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
The conference was sponsored by the Human Communication Program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and held Apr. 25-28, 1965, at Old Point Comfort, Va Proceedings of the 2d of a series of meetings; proceedings of the 1st are entered under Conference on Communicating by Language: The Speech Process, Princeton, N.J., 1964; the 3d, under: Conference on Communicating by Language: The Reading Process, New Orleans, 1968
Includes index.
Developmental psycholinguistics / David McNeill -- Comments on "Developmental psycholinguistics" / Dan I. Slobin -- How to learn to talk : some simple ways / Jerry A. Fodor -- The acquisition of Russian as a native language / Dan I. Slobin -- Some questions on the child's learning of phonology / Ruth H. Weir -- The study of articulation and language development during the early school years / Mildred C. Templin -- The development of the phonological system in the normal and the deaf child / D.B. Fry -- Teaching the deaf child to speak / Ira J. Hirsh -- The natural history of language / Eric H. Lenneberg -- Evolutionary aspects of language development and function / Richard Allen Chase -- Ontogenetic, genetical, and phylogenetic parallels between animal communication and prelinguistic child behavior / H. Kalmus -- Preparations for discussing behaviorism with chimpanzee / David Premack and Arthur Schwartz -- Comments on -- "Preparations for discussing behaviorism with chimpanzee" / P.B. Denes -- Reflections on the conference / James J. Jenkins -- Appendix. Soviet methods of investigating child language : a topical guide to "Abstracts of Soviet studies of child language" / prepared by Dan I Slobin. -- Abstracts of Soviet studies of child language .
This volume is a product of conference entitled "Language development in Children " sponsored by human communication program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.