pragmatic bootstrapping

Thu Apr 14 16:39:40 UTC 2011

Dear Anat

Good to have met you in Montreal! I am finally getting round to sending you the paper I mentioned which alludes to pragmatic difficulties as a possible source of language impairment in children (though not the source of all language impairment!) in case this is of interest to you. I developed the thinking and evidence further in one section of my book 'Understanding children with language problems', published back in 2000. I could send you a copy of this if you're interested and can't easily access the book.

Maybe we will meet up in Montreal again in July?!

Best wishes

Shula

Shula Chiat
Department of Language & Communication Science
City University London

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From: Anat Ninio [mailto:msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il]
Sent: 17 March 2011 04:07
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Subject: pragmatic bootstrapping

Dear List,

Sorry to have sent this to the whole list by mistake, but actually I'd love to hear from anybody who knows of studies that can be said to test the hypothesis that children learn syntax by "pragmatic bootstrapping".

Thanks,

Anat Ninio

On 17-03-11 06:01, Anat Ninio wrote:
Hi Nameera,

Thanks a lot!  Absolutely coincidentally this very minute I'm reading your 2008 (or is it 2009?) encyclopedia entry

Akhtar, N., & Herold, K. (2008). Pragmatic development. In M. M. Haith & J. B. Benson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development, Vol. 2 (pp. 572-581). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
which I want to cite for a research proposal for an European grant. First, is it 2008 or 2009? Second, you say
"We know of no empirical research, however, that has directly addressed the question of whether children learn syntactic constructions in the same way as they learn words; that is,  through "pragmatic bootstrapping" or attention to speakers' intentions." (p.319)
Would you still say so? Or is there some new study that you know of that I should mention? Any newer publication of yours on this point?

Thanks a lot and see you in SRCD for sure,

Anat

On 17-03-11 05:14, nameera akhtar wrote:
congratulations, anat!

hope to see you at srcd,

nameera
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Anat Ninio <msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il<mailto:msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>> wrote:
Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I'm very happy to be able to announce the publication of my new book by Oxford University Press.  It is entitled   "Syntactic development, its input and output" and a description of it, as well as a link to the Introduction, can be found on the publisher's on-line catalogue at http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199565962.do

I hope you'll like it!

Anat Ninio
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