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H193.1 版次： |
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著者:
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Yang, Charles D. |
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The infinite gift : [ how children learn and unlearn the languages of the world /] / , |
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出版地： New York : 出版社： Scribner, 出版日期： c2006. |
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vii, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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内容提要:
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"Drawing on cutting-edge developments in biology, neurology, psychology, and linguistics, Charles Yang's The Infinite Gift takes us inside the astonishingly complex but largely subconscious process by which children learn to talk and to understand the spoken word." "Yang illuminates the rich mysteries of language: why French newborns already prefer the sound of French to English; why baby-talk, though often unintelligible, makes perfect linguistic sense; why babies born deaf still babble - but with their hands; why the grammars of some languages may be evolutionarily stronger than others; and why one of the brain's earliest achievements may in fact be its most complex." "Yang also puts forth a new theory. Building on Noam Chomsky's notion of a universal grammar - the idea that every human being is born with an intuitive grasp of grammar - Yang argues that we learn our native languages in part by unlearning the grammars of all the rest."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Language acquisition. |
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H193.1/1 |