Vocal motoric foundations of spoken language - a commentary on Iverson's 'Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development'.
Vocal motoric foundations of spoken language - a commentary on Iverson's 'Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development'.
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口语的声乐运动基础 - 对艾弗森“在发育中的身体中发展语言:运动发展与语言发展之间的关系”的评论。
DOI:
10.1017/s0305000909990456
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Oller,Kimbrough
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作者:
Oller,Kimbrough
The article by Iverson (this issue) provides a persuasive argument for change from the simplistic factorial analytical model of language learning that constituted the primary approach to theory for decades toward a more synthetic view compatible with dynamic systems and integrated crossmodality thinking. She argues for this broader view by highlighting the importance of considering the child as a multi-faceted actor upon the environment, and in terms of the importance of these motoric actions in laying the groundwork for learning and acquisition of complex skills, especially language. She thus suggests a systems approach to thinking about the underpinnings for language that acknowledges and emphasizes the interactions of various components of action with the potential for acquiring related skills and components of related skills. These ideas stand in contrast with the common notion that language is an isolated, highly modularized capacity, unrelated (or scarcely related) to the remainder of cognition and motoric life (Chomsky, 1966).Being so enthusiastic about this review, and having nothing but quibbles to moderate its basic thrust, my inclination is not to critique it, but to add something to it. Iverson explicitly left something that I think is central out of her review. She wished to show that motoric development OTHER THAN THAT WHICH CONCERNS VOCALIZATION PER SE is important in the study of language acquisition. I agree heartily, but I wish to argue in addition that MOTOR DEVELOPMENT OF VOCALIZATION ITSELF has been largely ignored as a foundation for the speech communication capacity, and that this omission has hampered and delayed the establishment of a workable science of early spoken language and its acquisition. Iverson conceded that motor development other than that which concerns vocalization per se is neither