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Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has been commissioned by the Venezuelan government to prepare reading primers in Panare as part of their literacy programme. She is shown gathering a range of materials...
A review of the basic characteristics of apraxic deficits and a description of possible clinical variants applicable to apraxia of speech. A form of congenital dysarthria is described and compared and...
Steven Pinker’s work ‘The Language Instinct,' argues that human language is not an invention, but a natural instinct unique to man. Here Pinker introduces his thinking and the arguments that support his...
Looks at auditory processing problems found in children with attention deficit disorder (ADD), describes the means for identifying those problems, and teaches specific management and treatment strategies...
Charts the development of children’s language from birth to age five before asking, ‘What is left to learn?'. Uses narrative and children’s jokes to show that language development in the early school...
A girl who had spent the first 13 years of her life locked inside a single room tethered to a potty, was virtually mute when she eventually escaped. She had never had a normal human relationship. The...
Dr Stephen Pinker explores the connections between language and consciousness. Sections are: 1) Are our thoughts shaped by the language we use?; 2) How we understand language; 3) The evolution of language;...
A 15-unit video course on three tapes providing self-study material for use by students acquiring practical phonetic skills of consonant and vowel identification and discrimination. The course covers most of...
Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has...
In 2 parts: Part 1 investigates what verbal language is and how it works. Shows that although words are essentially different from the things they refer to by combining them according to the rules of a...
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