Title: Children's language : consensus and controversy /
Authors: Cattell, N. R.
Publisher: Cassell,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Language acquisition.
Contents: Getting to rub two words together (Getting started with language) -- Catching fire (starting to make fast progress) -- Do we teach children to speak? (B.F. Skinner and behaviourism) -- Learning through touching and feeling (Jean Piaget: learning is based on handling objects) -- What goes on in the mind? (Mentalism as a school of thought. Noam Chomsky) -- A close look at Chomsky's theories (Some of Chomsky's work on language acquisition) -- Do we help children to speak? ("Motherese" or child-directed speech) -- Learning how to mean (Michael Halliday's views on how language develops) --