Early Language Development
Bridging brain and behaviour
Editors
| Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
| Bangor University
This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants’ overt behavioral responses. On the other hand, more recent methods such as neuroimaging and, in particular, event-related potentials provide access to implicit responses from the infant brain while often relying on rather gross experimental contrasts. The aims of this book are both to provide neuroscientists with an overview of the ingenious behavioral paradigms that have been developed in the field of language development and to introduce the power of neurophysiological indices to behavioral experimentalists. The two approaches are compared at various levels of processing: phonetic discrimination, categorical perception, speech segmentation, syllable and word recognition, semantic priming. A general discussion brings together the two approaches, highlights their respective contributions and limitations and proposes constructive ideas for future integration.
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 5] 2008. xiv, 263 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
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vii–viii
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Preface
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ix–x
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xi–xiv
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1–22
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23–64
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65–89
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91–114
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115–135
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137–160
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161–190
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191–213
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215–231
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233–255
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Glossary
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257–260
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Index
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261–263
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“Although Early Language Development does not discuss enough methodological issues to be a true introduction on how to use ERP data, and this probably always requires experience in a laboratory setting, some of the best studies in the volume show us exciting future potentials for this field; in particular the possibility to validate theories of cognitive development by combining brain and behavioral studies.”
Suzanne V. H. van der Feest, University of Pennsylvania, in The Journal of Child Language 37: 217-221
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFDC – Language acquisition
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General