Search for dissertations about: "child language development"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the words child language development.

  2. 21. Mental Representation and Language Access: Evidence from Deaf Children with Different Language Backgrounds

    Author : Marek Meristo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : mentalizing skills; social interaction; deafness; sign language;

    Abstract : The ability to identify with others and to understand that they have minds of their own is the cornerstone of human interaction. In the last 25 years there has been a large amount of research done on the development of mentalizing skills and an ongoing debate exists about the nature of acquiring these skills. READ MORE

  4. 22. Early communicative and language development in Swedish children : methods, results, clinical implications, and prospects for the future

    Author : Eva Berglund; Elizabeth Bates; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : The present thesis concerns communicative and language skills in Swedish children and the instruments designed to measure those skills. The primary focus of the paper is on findings related to the field of communicative and language skills and on important methodological issues. READ MORE

  5. 23. Mental representation and language access:Evidence from deaf children with different language backgrounds

    Author : Marek Meristo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Keywords: mentalizing skills; theory-of-mind; social interaction; deafness; sign language;

    Abstract : The present work investigated the relationship between mentalizing skills on the one hand and different language experiences and cognitive characteristics on the other hand. The aim of study I was to determine whether access to sign language as the medium of instruction in school influences mentalizing abilities among deaf children. READ MORE

  6. 24. Experiences, networks and uncertainty : parenting a child who uses a cochlear implant

    Author : Liz Adams Lyngbäck; Anders Gustavsson; Gunnar Karlsson; Patrick Kermit; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; parenting; parents; cochlear implant; first-person perspective; lifeworld; netnographic; everyday life; orientation; deaf; disability; sign language; allyship; social literacy; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation project is to describe the ways people experience parenting a deaf child who uses a cochlear implant. Within a framework of social science studies of disability this is done by combining approaches using ethnographic and netnographic methods of participant observation with an interview study. READ MORE

  7. 25. Phonetic Imitation, Accent, and the Learner

    Author : Duncan Markham; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sociolinguistics; talent; language acquisition; phonetics; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This work is concerned with the acquisition of the phonetic characteristics of languages and dialects, and with the issue of learner talent or individual achievement in learning second languages. Following a survey of the literature on language learning limits, it is argued that the concentration on group trends in most of the existing literature, whilst convenient, serves more to obscure the reasons for the difficulties experienced by most non-child language learners than to explain them. READ MORE