Receptive Language Development in Infancy: Issues and Problems.
1970; Merrill-Palmer Institute; Linguagem: Inglês
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Speech and Audio Processing
ResumoJudging by the theoretical and speculative literature as it stands today, receptive language development in infancy is a minor topic of marginal significance. Issues related to infant listening and receptive processes are virtually ignored in the literature of the new wave of language studies that assumed torrential proportions in the early 1960s. Though there is general acknowledgment among authorities that language input is a necessary pre requisite for the organization of speech, the topic is seldom accorded more than a few sentences or at most a few paragraphs—and some of these dis cussions are highly patronizing in tone. They seem to suggest that auditory perception in general and language perception in particular are topics on which thoughtful observers would hardly need to spend much time. There is little in this literature to suggest that the problem of how babies come to recognize the phonological, lexical, semantic, and grammatical systems in the language that they hear represents a psychological, linguistic, and developmental problem of the greatest magnitude. I know of no serious, contemporary study of early language growth that gives lengthy, systematic attention to the broad issues of receptive language organization as a sig nificant area of linguistic activity or as a significant area for developmental research. Except among audiologists concerned with problems of hearing acuity, investigators have focused their attention almost exclusively on the young child as a speaker, and little attention has been paid to him as a listener.
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