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Language Development: Overview

2006
A brief timetable of language development is outlined. This article then deals in turn with the major aspects of language learning in terms of infancy, learning words, learning morphology, early grammar, later grammar, the learning of pragmatic and metalinguistic skills and, finally, some brief reflections on atypical development.
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Language and conceptual development

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004
One of the most central themes in cognitive science concerns the relationship between language and the origin and development of concepts – a enduring topic [1xSee all References][1] that is being addressed increasingly in a surge of books, articles and commentaries (e.g. [2xThinking through language. Bloom, P and Keil, F.C. Mind Lang.
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Imitation and Language Development

1971
Publisher Summary During the first four years of life, most children reared in a speech community increasingly exhibit speech forms common or typical of that community. At the same time, they exhibit an increasing ability to imitate the speech of people in their environments.
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The development of hierarchical visual languages

Proceedings 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2003
The development of a visual language requires a specification of its syntax and semantics and the implementation of a visual environment which embeds it. In the present paper we describe VLCC, a graphical system for the automatic generation of visual programming environments.
COSTAGLIOLA, Gennaro, FERRUCCI, Filomena, POLESE, Giuseppe, G. VITIELLO   +3 more
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Language development in autism

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 2003
In this short review article, a summary of the behavioural impairments most commonly associated with the spectrum of autism-related disorders is presented, with a slightly amplified account of the defining communication impairment. The patterns of language ability and disability which typically occur in some forms of autism are then outlined, followed ...
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The language of development and the development of language in contemporary Africa

Applied Linguistics Review, 2012
AbstractArguably, few issues so overwhelmingly obsess African governments and societies as the question of development. Many would claim that it is the leading existential rationale of African governments. This has certainly been the case since the commencement of the era of African self-rule. The lack of success in making headway in the development of
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Development of a cartographic language

1993
The development of a cartographic language for topographic maps is presented. Map components are identified as part of the analytical study of maps and based on these components the elements of the language, alphabet and grammar, are identified. Then, the alphabetic symbols together with the components of the grammar: operations, rules and writing ...
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Language development and language disorders

1978
Most young children learn the words and rules for simple sentences in their first few years. Some children, however, learn language more slowly and with more difficulty so that by their third birthday, parents and caregivers become concerned. Helping these children to catch up and learn language requires a plan for assessment and then a plan for ...
Bloom, Lois, Lahey, Margaret
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Language Development

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 1963
Susan Μ. Ervin, Wick R. Miller
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MUIR - a language development environment

Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGSMALL/PC symposium on ACTES - SIGSMALL '88, 1988
The concept of a language development environment is introduced and motivated. The key facilities and characteristics of such an environment is described, and a concrete system called Muir is studied. In a language development environment the language definition formalism is central.
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