Language Competence Across Populations: Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment
The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel. Text presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal and disordered language capabilities. Examines language development, methodological concerns, dialects, signed languages, and linguistic approaches. Includes charts, graphs, and halftone illustrations.
Language and Space (Language, Speech, and Communication)
The study of the relationship between natural language and spatial cognition has the potential to yield answers to vexing questions about the nature of the mind, language, and culture. The fifteen original contributions in Language and Space bring together the major lines of research and the most important theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, providing a much needed synthesis across these diverse domains.
The rapid development of communications technology is transforming the manner in which people communicate across time and space. In English in a Postmodern World the contributors examine both the ways in which the English language has adapted to new media and the changing social relations of a global communications culture. Topics covered include: English as a visual language, the changing relationship between text and technology, the language of the Internet, the language of English news media and the global growth of English.
In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts. Adverbials - clause elements that typically refer to circumstances of time, space, reason and manner - cover a range of meanings and can be placed at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a sentence. The description of the frequency of meaning types and discussion of the reasons for selecting positions show that the use of adverbials differs across text types. Adverbial usage is often linked to the general build-up of a text and part of its content and purpose.
In the past twenty-five years there has been an explosion in research on the development of perception. This research has produced discoveries at multiple levels: ecological analyses of the information available for perception, models of representation and process, and improved understanding of biological mechanisms. In this comprehensive treatment of infant perception, Philip Kellman and Martha Arterberry bring together work at these multiple levels to produce a new picture of perception's origins.
