How Long to Read What is Language Development?

How Long Does it Take to Read What is Language Development??

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 40 minutes to read What is Language Development? by James Russell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Language development is one of the major battle grounds within the humanities and sciences. This is the first time that the three major theories in language development research have been fully described and compared within the covers of a single book. The three approaches: (1) The rationalismof Chomsky and the syntactic nativism that it entails; (2) The empiricism instinct in connectionist modelling of syntactic development; (3) The pragmatism of those who see the child as actively 'constructing' a grammatical 'inventory' piece-by-piece through recruiting general learning abilities andsocio-cognitive knowledge.The book is unique in striking a balance between broad philosophical assessment of these three theories and fine-grain, fairly technical, accounts of how they fare at the empirical and linguistic 'coal faces'.In Part 1, the kind of psychology to which rationalism, empiricism, and pragmatism give rise are described with reference to philosophers such as Fodor, Hume, and the American pragmatists from Peirce, to Rorty and Brandom. After an introduction to the syntactic analysis of the sentence, Part 2continues with an account of the evolution of Chomskyan theory from its inception to the present day, followed by a review of developmental research inspired by it. Part 3 takes a sceptical look at connectionist modelling of syntactic development. Part 4 describes the kind of linguistic theoriesthat the socio-cognitive approach finds sympathetic, reviewing its empirical progress (e.g. the work of Tomasello), ending with a comparison of how the generativists and functionalists tackle the evolution of syntax.Clearly and accessibly written, the book will be an important text for developmental psychologists, linguists, and philosophers working on language.

How long is What is Language Development??

What is Language Development? by James Russell is 580 pages long, and a total of 145,000 words.

This makes it 196% the length of the average book. It also has 177% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What is Language Development? Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 12 minutes to read What is Language Development? aloud.

What Reading Level is What is Language Development??

What is Language Development? is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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