The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech

by Stein Bråten

The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech illustrates how recent findings about primary intersubjectivity, participant perception and mirror neurons afford a new understanding of children's nature, dialogue and language. Based on recent infancy research and the mirror neurons discovery, studies of early speech perception, comparative primate studies and computer simulations of language evolution, this book offers replies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027252122
• ISBN13: 9789027252128
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 351 Pages