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How Does Evolution Design a Brain Capable of Learning Language?
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Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
Discusses methods of assessing language comprehension in apes. Considers the possible effect of brain physiology on the differences between productive and receptive language skills. Examines the possibility that differences between synaptic transmission and volume transmission, or transmission across extracellular spaces, of neurological impulses…
Descriptors: Children, Evolution, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Comprehension and Production in Early Language Development.
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Bates, Elizabeth – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
Discusses the assessment of children's early language comprehension by the use of (1) parent reports; (2) preferential-looking models; and (3) event-related brain potentials. Examines recent findings on dissociations between language comprehension and production in normal, late-talking, and brain-injured children and considers the implications of…
Descriptors: Children, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Language Play.
Schwartz, Judy I. – 1979
This paper discusses kinds and characteristics of language play, explores the relationship of such play to wider domains of language and play, and speculates on the possible contributions of language play for language mastery and cognitive development. Jump rope chants and ritual insults ("Off my case, potato face") and other expressive…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Essays, Expressive Language