Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development (Language Culture and Cognition)
Contributors: Melissa Bowerman (Editor); Steven Levinson (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780521593588
Subjects: Language Acquisition; Linguistics; Psychology; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Cognitive Psychology; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Cognition In Children
First sentence: Before we can properly consider the relations between language and cognition from the perspective of a comparative primatology, we will need to establish some fundamental points about the similarities and differences of cognitive development in the different species.