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Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments

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  1. Arild Lian

    1. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-47

  3. Developmental Language Impairment: Conceptual Issues and Prospects of an Evolutionary Approach

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    Pages 49-77

  4. The Problem of Continuity in Time and Across Domains

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    Pages 79-130

  5. Dialogues as Procedural Skills

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    Pages 131-158

  6. Evolving Meaning in Language

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    Pages 159-192

  7. Literacy and Language

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    Pages 193-228

  8. The Modality-Independent Capacity of Language: A Milestone of Evolution

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    Pages 229-255

  9. Developmental Language Impairment: Perspectives of Etiology and Treatment

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    Pages 257-292

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 293-306
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About this book

This book gives an account of developmental language impairment from the perspective of language evolution. Components of language acquisition and specific language impairments can be mapped to stages in the evolutionary trajectory of language. Lian argues that the learning of procedural skills by early ancestors has served as pre-adaptation of grammar. The evolutionary perspective gives rise to a re-evaluation of developmental impairment with respect to diagnostic terminology and methods of treatment. Chapters within cover topics such as dyslexia, the cultural mediation of language evolution and the cross-modality of language. Turn-taking in marmoset monkeys is considered as a pre-adaptation to dialogue in humans, and the role of infant-caregiver interactions is discussed. Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments will be of interest to linguists, psychologists and neurobiologists interested in the intersection of these subjects, as well as scholars of language acquisition and language impairment.

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“The author covers the combined fields of human evolution and development of language in humans from prehistory to the present. … the book’s intention is to provide an improved understanding of developmental language impairments within a dual perspective of both language and its subsystems and the conceptual framework of evolutionary biology. … it is a resource for those with firm grounding in these areas of study. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” (J. D. Neal, Choice, Vol. 54 (5), January, 2017) 

“This is an important and timely book. Much has been learned in this century and the evolution of language that is relevant to our understanding of language disorders. However, it is scattered among sources in a variety of disciplines. Arild Lian has provided an integrated account that will be indispensable to both researchers and clinical practitioners dealing with the various language-related disorders.” (Arnold Glass, Professor, Rutgers University, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Arild Lian

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Arild Lian is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research has focused on experimental and theoretical cognitive psychology, the relation between recall and recognition of episodic memories, verbal working memory and the relationship between short-term memory span and language acquisition.

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