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"How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years" by Benedicte de Boysson-Bardies, translated by M.B. DeBevoise. Book Review.
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McCathren, Rebecca B. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2001
Considers Boysson-Bardies' book a thorough and thought-provoking description of early language development and the research related to how infants learn to talk and respond to speech. Notes the value of the book's discussion of cross-cultural variation in vocabulary development and individual differences related to special education. (JPB)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Language, Cultural Differences, Infants
Book Review: Understanding Word Learning or Claiming the Ethnographic Child.
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Lucariello, Joan – Cognitive Development, 1995
Reviews "The Transition from Infancy to Language: Acquiring the Power of Expression" (L. Bloom). Underscores that Bloom's account of word learning represents an ethnographic, theoretic, and research approach that explores development by starting with the child, and looks at the many behaviors of the child and views these in relation to…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition
Dialogical Nature of Cognition.
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Rochat, Philippe – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Suggests that children construe the world as they develop relationships with other individuals. Offers considerations regarding developmental changes marking the first year of life and argues that cognition is framed in public social exchanges and private dialogical thinking. (DLH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Dialogs (Language)