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Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments
Arild Lian
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Description for Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments
Hardback. Num Pages: 315 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; JHM; JMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 519.
This book gives an account of developmental language impairment from the perspective of language evolution. Components of language acquisition and specific language impairments can be mapped to stages in the evolutionary trajectory of language. Lian argues that the learning of procedural skills by early ancestors has served as pre-adaptation of grammar. The evolutionary perspective gives rise to a re-evaluation of developmental impairment with respect to diagnostic terminology and methods of treatment. Chapters within cover topics such as dyslexia, the cultural mediation of language evolution and the cross-modality of language. Turn-taking in marmoset monkeys is considered as a pre-adaptation to dialogue ... Read more
This book gives an account of developmental language impairment from the perspective of language evolution. Components of language acquisition and specific language impairments can be mapped to stages in the evolutionary trajectory of language. Lian argues that the learning of procedural skills by early ancestors has served as pre-adaptation of grammar. The evolutionary perspective gives rise to a re-evaluation of developmental impairment with respect to diagnostic terminology and methods of treatment. Chapters within cover topics such as dyslexia, the cultural mediation of language evolution and the cross-modality of language. Turn-taking in marmoset monkeys is considered as a pre-adaptation to dialogue ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137587459
SKU
V9781137587459
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About Arild Lian
Arild Lian is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research has focused on experimental and theoretical cognitive psychology, the relation between recall and recognition of episodic memories, verbal working memory and the relationship between short-term memory span and language acquisition.
Reviews for Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments
“The author covers the combined fields of human evolution and development of language in humans from prehistory to the present. … the book’s intention is to provide an improved understanding of developmental language impairments within a dual perspective of both language and its subsystems and the conceptual framework of evolutionary biology. … it is a resource for those with firm ... Read more