"儿童是怎样学习那些有意义的语言的?"--RDI认证学习资料之一

binfeng2000

这是英文原文的资料,在这里做个资料介绍,这是RDI认证的阅读书目之一,以后将陆续记录,因为这些书都是行业中的经典之作.

How Children Learn the Meanings of Words

by Paul Bloom
Copyright © 20002


"No account of modern understanding of children’s language development can be considered complete unless it includes the work of Dr. Paul Bloom. His elegantly written, powerfully convincing work provides a unique door into our modern understanding of language development. In this account Dr. Bloom focuses on a single, critical aspect of language; how children come to understand the meaning of words." -Dr. Steve Gutstein

How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind.

According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. Although other researchers have associated word learning with some of these capacities, Bloom is the first to show how a complete explanation requires all of them. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways.

This book requires no background in psychology or linguistics and is written in a clear, engaging style. Topics include the effects of language on spatial reasoning, the origin of essentialist beliefs, and the young child's understanding of representational art. The book should appeal to general readers interested in language and cognition as well as to researchers in the field.
-book description MIT Press

This book is also sold as part of the Hot List #2: Mind and Language, recommended reading for all professionals and required reading for all RDI Certified Consultants and Trainees.


Publisher: MIT Press; ISBN: 0262523299

Cost: $24.00

niuhang

:'