Language Development From Birth To Three

With selections of philosophers from Plotinus to Bruno, this new anthology provides significant learning support and historical context for the readings along with a wide variety of pedagogical assists.Featuring biographical headnotes, reading introductions, study questions, as well as specialPrologues andPhilosophical Overviews, this anthology offers a unique set of critical thinking promtps to help students understand and appreciate the philosophical concepts under discussion.Philosophical Bridges discuss how the work of earlier thinkers would influence philosophers to come and place major movements in a contemporary context, showing students how the schools of philosophy interrelate and how the various philosophies apply to the world today.In addition to this volume of Medieval Philosophy, a comprehensive survey of the whole of Western philosophical history and other individual volumes for each of the major historical eras are also available for specialized courses.

Preface 1. Introduction I. THE EMERGENCE AND SOCIALIZATION OF THE SYMBOLIC FUNCTION 2. Representation, Language, and Infant Mentation Internal Representation 3. Development of the Symbolic Function 4. The Socialization of Verbal Symbols II. EARL Y SYNTAX 5. Aspects of Syntax 6. The Characteristics of Early Sentences 7. The Emergence and Early Development of Syntax III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH AND MORPHOLOGY 8. The Nature of Speech 9. Development of Morphology 10. Development of Speech 11. Summary and Integration

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Moshe Anisfeld