Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development (Language Culture and Cognition)
Contributors: Melissa Bowerman (Editor); Steven Levinson (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780521596596
Subjects: Language acquisition; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Linguistics; 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.