Young Children’s Knowledge of Relational Terms

Some Ifs, Ors, and Buts

Lucia A. French, Katherine Nelson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

130 Seiten

2011 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4613-8583-7 (ISBN)

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An appreciation of temporal and logical relationships is one of the essential and defining features of human cognition. A central question in developmental psy chology, and in the philosophical speculations out of which psychology evolved, has been how children come to understand temporal and logical relationships. For many recent investigators, this question has been translated into empiri cal studies of children's acquisition of relational terms-words such as before, after, because, so, if, but, and or that permit the linguistic expression of logi cal relationships. In the mid 1970s, Katherine Nelson began to study young children's knowledge about routine activities in which they participated. The goal of this research was to understand how children represented their personal experiences and how these representations contributed to further cognitive development. A primary method used in the early phases of this research involved simply asking children to describe familiar events. They were asked, for example, "What happens when you have lunch at school?" or "What happens at a birthday party?" Hundreds of transcripts of children's responses to such questions were available when Lucia French became an NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow in Developmental Psychology at City University of New York in 1979.

1 Introduction.- 2 The Temporal Structure of Event Descriptions.- 3 The Use of Temporal Terms.- 4 Using If, Because, and So to Indicate Causal Relationships.- 5 Some Ors and Buts.- 6 Conclusion.- References.- Appendices.- Author Index.

Reihe/Serie	Springer Series in Language and Communication ; 19
Zusatzinfo	130 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
Schlagworte	children • Knowledge
ISBN-10	1-4613-8583-0 / 1461385830
ISBN-13	978-1-4613-8583-7 / 9781461385837
Zustand	Neuware