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Charles Yang

The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of Th

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A child's very first word is a miraculous sound, the opening note in a lifelong symphony. Most parents never forget the moment. But that first word is soon followed by a second and a third, and by the age of three, children are typically learning ten new words every day and speaking in complete sentences. The process seems effortless, and for children, it is. But how exactly does it happen? How do children learn language? And why is it so much harder to do later in life? Drawing on cutting-edge developments in biology, neurology, psychology, and linguistics, Charles Yang's The Infinite Gift takes us inside the astonishi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4516-1299-8
  • EAN: 9781451612998
  • Produktnummer: 7609563
  • Verlag: Scribner Books Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 446 g
  • Gewicht: 446

Über den Autor


Charles Yang teaches linguistics and psychology at Yale University. Trained as a computer scientist at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, he has written extensively on children and language and contributes articles to The London Review of Books, among other literary publications. He lives in Delaware with his wife, a frequent research collaborator, and young son, a frequent research subject.

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