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The Onset of Language

Part of Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development

Author: Nobuo Masataka, Kyoto University, Japan

Date Published: January 2008
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521049573

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The Onset of Language outlines an approach to the development of expressive and communicative behaviour from early infancy to the onset of single word utterances. Nobuo Masataka's research is rooted in ethology and dynamic action theory. He argues that expressive and communicative actions are organized as a complex and cooperative system with other elements of the infant's physiology, behaviour and the social environments. Overall, humans are provided with a finite set of specific behaviour patterns, each of which is phylogenetically inherited as a primate species. However, the patterns are uniquely organized during ontogeny and a coordinated structure emerges which eventually leads us to acquire language. This fascinating book offers exciting insights into the precursors of speech and will be of interest to researchers and students of psychology, linguistics and animal behaviour biology.
- Offers new insights into the precursors of speech
- Argues for spoken language acquisition as a process of species-specific communicative competence
- Is distinctive in its theoretical orientation towards ethology and dynamical system approach
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Product details
- Date Published: January 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521049573
- length: 296 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.456kg
- contains: 24 b/w illus. 14 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The development of the ability to take turns
3. Cooing in three-month-old infants
4. The development of vocal imitation
5. How infant-directed speech influences infant vocal development
6. From laughter to babbling
7. Earliest language development in sign language
8. From babbling to speaking
9. Summary and conclusion
References
Index.
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Nobuo Masataka, Kyoto University, Japan
Nobuo Masataka is Associate Professor at the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. He has published numerous articles in journals such as Developmental Psychology and Journal of Child Language.