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The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning

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Editors:
  1. Gisela E. Speidel

    1. Center for Development of Early Education, Honolulu, USA

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  2. Keith E. Nelson

    1. Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Language and Communication (SSLAN, volume 24)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. A Fresh Look at Imitation in Language Learning

    • Gisela E. Speidel, Keith E. Nelson
    Pages 1-21

  3. On Linking Nonverbal Imitation, Representation, and Language Learning in the First Two Years of Life

    • Andrew N. Meltzoff, Alison Gopnik
    Pages 23-51

  4. Individual and Dyadic Patterns of Imitation: Cognitive and Social Aspects

    • Elise Frank Masur
    Pages 53-71

  5. Imitativeness: A Trait or a Skill?

    • Catherine E. Snow
    Pages 73-90

  6. Imitation in Mother-Child Conversations: A Focus on the Mother

    • Ina Č. Užgiris, Susan Broome, Jan C. Kruper
    Pages 91-120

  7. Bidirectional Effects of Imitation and Repetition in Conversation: A Synthesis Within a Cognitive Model

    • John Neil Bohannon III, Laura Stanowicz
    Pages 121-150

  8. Imitation: A Bootstrap for Learning to Speak?

    • Gisela E. Speidel
    Pages 151-179

  9. Imitation and the Construction of Long Utterances

    • Gisela E. Speidel, Madeleen J. Herreshoff
    Pages 181-197

  10. A Biological Basis for Individual Differences in Learning to Speak

    • Gisela E. Speidel
    Pages 199-229

  11. Phylogenetic Processes in Verbal Language Imitation

    • Roland G. Tharp, Caleb E. S. Burns
    Pages 231-250

  12. Observational Learning and Language Acquisition: Principles of Learning, Systems, and Tasks

    • Grover J. Whitehurst, Barbara D. DeBaryshe
    Pages 251-276

  13. The Fuzzy Set Called “Imitations”

    • Ernst L. Moerk
    Pages 277-303

  14. Implications for Language Acquisition Models of Childrens’ and Parents’ Variations in Imitation

    • Keith E. Nelson, Mikael Heimann, Lutfi Abuelhaija, Roberta Wroblewski
    Pages 305-323

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 325-343
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About this book

In this book we take a fresh look at imitation. With the knowledge of some 20 years of research after Chomsky's initial critique of the behavioristic approach to language learning, it is time to explore imitation once again. How imitation is viewed in this book has changed greatly since the 1950s and can only be under­ stood by reading the various contributions. This reading reveals many faces, many forms, many causes, and many functions of imitation-cognitive, social, information processing, learning, and biological. Some views are far removed from the notion that an imitation must occur immediately or that it must be a per­ fect copy of an adult sentence. But the essence of the concept of imitation is retained: Some of the child's language behavior originates as an imitation of a prior model. The range of phenomena covered is broad and stimulating. Imitation's role is discussed from infancy on through all stages of language learning. Individual differences among children are examined in how much they use imitation, and in what forms and to what purposes they use it. The forms and functions of parent imitation of their child are considered. Second-language learning is studied alongside first-language learning. The juxtaposition of so many views and facets of imitation in this book will help us to study the commonalities as well as differences of various forms and functions of imitative language and will help us to discern the further dimensions along which we must begin to differentiate imitation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Development of Early Education, Honolulu, USA

    Gisela E. Speidel

  • Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Keith E. Nelson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning

  • Editors: Gisela E. Speidel, Keith E. Nelson

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Language and Communication

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1011-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96885-8Published: 16 May 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6983-0Published: 31 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1011-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-620X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 342

  • Topics: Psychology, general

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