Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child (Cognitive Science Series) [Paperback]

Barbara Landau (Author), Lila R. Gleitman (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (October 15, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674510267
ISBN-13: 978-0674510265
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,551,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
To know a language is to know the relations between sounds and their meanings. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exploratory nonexploratory, sighted caregivers, maternal corpus, sighted learner, blind learner, inductive machinery, sighted youngsters, visual verbs, sighted children, extralinguistic experience, perceptual verbs, conceptual naturalness, sighted sister, sighted terms, young blind child, sighted subjects, blind youngsters, reciprocal conjunction, haptic exploration, language onset, sighted controls, syntactic formats, subcategorization frames, blindfolded children, verb learning

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Blind Child's Understanding of Color, John Locke, Look Applied, Miss Barbara, Miss Piggy, Concept Natural, Did Mommy, Binomial Test, Dot Other, Flatbush Avenue, Vbb Inf

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This book cites 21 books:

Child Language (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Alison J. Elliot in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Child Psychology by Ross Vasta in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Child Development by Lewis Lipsitt in Back Matter
Culture and Inference: A Trobriand Case Study (Cognitive Science Series) by Edwin Hutchins in Front Matter
Language Development by V Lee in Front Matter

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29 books cite this book:

First Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings (Linguistics: The Essential Readings) by Barbara Lust in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Natsuko Tsujimura in Back Matter
Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series) by Adele E. Goldberg in Back Matter
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach by Georges Rey in Back Matter
Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction by Seana Coulson in Back Matter

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