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Her pioneering research elucidated the roles of cognition, emotion, and social behavior in language acquisition. [2] Bloom is the author of several books on language acquisition, including One Word At a Time: The Use of Single-Word Utterances Before Syntax [3], the culmination of Bloom's first longitudinal study, and the first-ever published ...
Eve Vivienne Clark (born 26 July 1942) is a British-born American linguist. Clark's research focuses on first language acquisition, especially the acquisition of meaning. She has also worked on the acquisition and use of word-formation, including comparative studies of English and Hebrew in children and adul
Eric Heinz Lenneberg (19 September 1921 – 31 May 1975) was a linguist and neurologist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness.
Developmental linguistics is the study of the development of linguistic ability in an individual, particularly the acquisition of language in childhood. It involves research into the different stages in language acquisition, language retention, and language loss in both first and second languages, in addition to the area of bilingualism. Before ...
John L. Locke is an American biolinguist who has contributed to the understanding of language development and the evolution of language.His work has focused on how language emerges in the social context of interaction between infants, children and caregivers, how speech and language disorders can shed light on the normal developmental process and vice versa, how brain and cognitive science can ...
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Letitia R. Gewirth received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 1983. As an undergraduate, Gewirth co-authored two research papers: "Altered patterns of word associations in dementia and aphasia [5]" in Brain and Language, and "A Reconsideration of acoustic Invariance for place of articulation [6]" in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Approach to language acquisition research has focused on three areas, namely the cognitive approach to language acquisition or the developmental cognitive theory of Jean Piaget, the information processing approach or the information processing model of Brian MacWhinney and Elizabeth Bates (the competition model), and the social interactionist approach or social interaction model of Lev ...