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1、Recentyearshaveseenarevolutioninourknowledgeofhowchildrenlearntothinkandspeak.Inthisvolume,leadingscholarsfromtheserapidlyevolvingfieldsofresearchexaminetherelationshipbetweenchildlanguageacquisitionandcognitivedevelopment.Atfirstsightrecentadvancesinthetwoareas
2、seemtohavemovedinopposingdirections:thestudyoflanguageacquisitionhasbeenespeciallyconcernedwithdiver-sity,explaininghowchildrenlearnlanguagesofwidelydifferenttypes,whilethestudyofcognitivedevelopmenthasfocusedonuniformity,clari-fyinghowchildrenbuildonfundamenta
3、l,presumablyuniversal,concepts.Thisbookbringsthesetwovitalstrandsofinvestigationintoclosedia-logue,suggestinganewsynthesisinwhichtheprocessoflanguageacqui-sitionmayinteractwithearlycognitivedevelopment.Itprovidesoriginalempiricalcontributions,basedonavarietyof
4、languages,populations,andages,andtheoreticaldiscussionsthatcutacrossthedisciplinesofpsychol-ogy,linguistics,andanthropology.melissabowermanisSeniorScientistattheMaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguisticsandProfessorattheFreeUniversityofAmsterdam.Herworkfocusesonfir
5、stlanguageacquisitioninchildren.SheisauthorofEarlysyntacticdevelopment:across-linguisticstudywithspecialreferencetoFinnish(1973),andmanyarticlesandchaptersonlanguagedevelopment.stephenlevinsonisDirectoroftheMaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguistics.Heiseditorofth
6、eCambridgeUniversityPressseriesLanguage,CultureandCognition.HispreviousbooksincludePragmatics(1983),Politeness(1987),andPresumptivemeanings(2000),andheisco-editorofRethinkinglinguisticrelativity(1996).Language,cultureandcognitionEditorSTEPHENC.LEVINSONMaxPlanc
7、kInstituteforPsycholinguistics,NijmegenThisnewserieslooksattheroleoflanguageinhumancognition–languageinbothitsuniversal,psychologicalaspectsanditsvariable,culturalaspects.Studieswillfocusontherelationbetweensemanticandconceptualcategoriesandprocesses,especiall
8、yastheseareilluminatedbycross-linguisticandcross-culturalstudies,thestudyoflanguageacquisitionandconceptualdevelopment,andthestudyoftherelationofspeechproductionandcomprehensiontoo
