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50 Years of ERIC
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Language Is Not an Instinct.
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Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 1995
Reviews "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language" (S. Pinker). Defines generative grammar, examines the evidence for Pinker's Generative Grammar as Instinct hypothesis, and discusses Pinker's use of language acquisition as support for the hypothesis. Suggests alternative theories of language that begin from different premises, such as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
The Place of Perception in Children's Concepts.
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Jones, Susan S.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Reviews current research on children's concepts and categories that reflects a growing consensus that nonperceptual knowledge is central to concepts and determines category membership, whereas perceptual knowledge is peripheral in concepts and only a rough guide to category membership. Argues that there is no compelling basis in theory or in data…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education