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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    15 January 2010
    23 October 2003
    ISBN:
    9780511489754
    9780521593960
    9780521049573
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489754
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.635kg, 296 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.456kg, 296 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Developmental Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development (9)
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    Subjects:
    Developmental Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development (9)
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    The Onset of Language outlines an approach to the development of expressive and communicative behaviour from early infancy to the onset of single word utterances. Nobuo Masataka's research is rooted in ethology and dynamic action theory. He argues that expressive and communicative actions are organized as a complex and cooperative system with other elements of the infant's physiology, behaviour and the social environments. Overall, humans are provided with a finite set of specific behaviour patterns, each of which is phylogenetically inherited as a primate species. However, the patterns are uniquely organized during ontogeny and a coordinated structure emerges which eventually leads us to acquire language. This fascinating book offers exciting insights into the precursors of speech and will be of interest to researchers and students of psychology, linguistics and animal behaviour biology.

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