Born to talk

By Thelma E. Weeks

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883771535
• ISBN13: 9780883771532
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Newbury House Publishers
• Length: 147 Pages

Customer Reviews

still unresolved learning questions

Published 30 years ago [!], this book addresses still unresolved issues of how children learn to talk. The enclosed papers describe test subjects of various young ages, and different tests that they were subject to by the researchers. The deeper problem of course is one of how the brain bootstraps itself so that a child can somehow acquire a small subset of words, and thence build up a vocabulary. The papers reflect the experimental constraints of 1979. There is no usage of MRI, fMRI or other current tools that let us peer however roughly into actual brain activity.