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Interfaces Between Language And Cognition
Cognitive mechanisms underlying linguistic communication do not only rely upon retrieval and processing of linguistic information; they also involve constant updating and organizing of this linguistic information in relation with other, more general, cognitive mechanisms. Some existing theoretical models assume such a tight interactive link between domain-general and domain-specific sources of information in the cognitive organization of the linguistic faculty and during language use. Domain-specific constraints may include, for example, grammatical as well as lexical and pragmatic knowledge. Domain-general constraints comprise processing limitations imposed by the cognitive mechanisms of me...
A Myriad of Tongues
"A guide to how languages around the world differ from one another far more than we realize and point to fundamental differences in how people conceive of everything from time to color to smell"--
The Evolution of Language
The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The proceedings are an important resource for researchers in the field.
Harvard Law Review: Volume 125, Number 3 - January 2012
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Table of Contents, linked footnotes and cross-references, legible tables, and proper ebook formatting. This issue is Jan. 2012, Volume 125, Number 3. Featured articles in this issue are from such recognized scholars as Rebecca Tushnet, reimagining copyright law for images instead of the usual frame of text and words, and Carol Steiker, reviewing David Garland's new book on capital punishment under the idea of contingency. Student contributions explore the law relating to conversion-modified video games, the Second Amendment and gun rights, patent law, environmental law, and extending the debt ceiling. Finally, the issue includes several Book Notes.
Language vs. Reality
A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention. Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is...
Understanding Mother-adolescent Conflict Discussions
The research reported in this book examined dispositional parenting predictors of the quality of parents' and their adolescent children's emotional displays and positive and negative verbalizations when dealing with conflictual issues.
The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children
This study examines the role of early social-emotional development on developing children and those with disabilities living in orphanages in Russia.Caregivers performed routine duties with minimal interaction with the children who had multiple carers throughout their lives and therefore were unable to attach to the staff. The study determined that with a higher caregiver-child ratio the children were able to bond.
Children Without Permanent Parents
This monograph reviews the research, practice, and policy literatures pertaining to children without permanent parents, most of whom spend their early months or years in institutions. Institutionalized children are typically more than a standard deviation below noninstitutionalized children in general physical and behavioral/cognitive development. Although they display marked catch-up growth after transitioning to adoptive or foster families, some deficiencies persist."--Abstract.
How Socialization Happens on the Ground
This monograph investigates personal storytelling as a medium of socialization in Taiwanese families in Taipei and European-American families in Longwood, Chicago. The findings open a window on how socialization operates on the ground: Socialization through personal storytelling is a highly dynamic process in which redundancy and variation are conjoined and children participate as active, creative, affectively engaged meaning makers.
Deprivation-Specific Psychological Patterns
Abstract -- Investigating the impact of early institutional deprivation on development: background and research strategy of the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study / Michael Rutter, Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke, and Jennifer Castle -- Methods and measures used for follow-up at 15 years of the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) study / English and Romanian study team -- Deprivation-specific psychological patterns / Robert Kumsta ... [et al.] -- Developmental course of deprivation-specific psychological patterns: early manifestations, persistence to age 15, and clinical features / Jana Kreppner ... [et al.] -- Differentiating developmental trajectories for conduct, emotion, and peer problems f...
