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In the first four years of life a child learns most of the complexities of language. What is currently known about the process of language development? 25 years ago Noam Chomsky shocked linguists a...nd psychologists into re-appraising the state of their knowledge. Today researchers chart the responses of a foetus to sound, they map crying, cooing and babbling for early indication of speech production and they work to understand how a child grasps the complexities of grammar and syntax. May be there is a "child grammar" which is revised to fit adult language. How do children communicate their thoughts and feelings? This programme explores the process of language acquisition from 0 to 4. What is the significance of baby talk?
In the first four years of life a child learns most of the complexities of language. What is currently known about the process of language development? 25 years ago Noam Chomsky shocked linguists a...nd psychologists into re-appraising the state of their knowledge. Today researchers chart the responses of a foetus to sound, they map crying, cooing and babbling for early indication of speech production and they work to understand how a child grasps the complexities of grammar and syntax. May be there is a "child grammar" which is revised to fit adult language. How do children communicate their thoughts and feelings? This programme explores the process of language acquisition from 0 to 4. What is the significance of baby talk?
| Module code and title: | E362, Cognitive development: language and thinking - birth to adolescence |
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| Item code: | E362; 06A |
| First transmission date: | 15-07-1984 |
| Published: | 1984 |
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| Duration: | 00:49:15 |
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| Producer: | Suzanne Campbell-Jones |
| Contributor: | Michael Smee |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Andrew Meltzoff; Barry Lester; Catherine Snow; Child Age 0-4; Child grammar; Colwyn Trevarthen; Cooing babbling; Crying; Dan Slobin; David Crystal; Elena Lieven; Eve Clark; Foetus; Frank Fallside; Harry McGurk; Jean Berko-Gleason; Jerome Bruner; Katherine Nelson; Language development; Noam Chomsky; Peter Eimas; Peter Wolfe |
| Subject terms: | Child psychology; Children--Language; Language acquisition; Psycholinguistics |
| Master spool number: | HOU4785 |
| Production number: | FOUE179L |
| Videofinder number: | 4331 |
| Available to public: | no |
