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<div>Hi! It's not essential to expose your baby to Mozart in the womb
-- according to the research which has failed to replicate the
"Mozart effect." But "How Babies Talk" (by
Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek) is the story of how kids learn language
told from the point of view of the latest research in our field.
It also points out what parents can do to facilitate their children's
language development in sections in each chapter called
"Scientific Sleuthing Pays Off!" Hope this fits the
bill.</div>
<div>Best, Roberta Golinkoff</div>
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<div>At 10:49 AM +0100 6/4/03, Alcock, Katie wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">My brother
and his wife, an ecologist and a university adminstrator, are
expecting their first baby - and I get asked this question by educated
and intelligent parents of infants who come into our lab. What
is a good book on child development, especially infant development,
for the lay person? I'm particularly looking for one that is well
balanced and steers clear of, or at least balances out, the "baby
as mini-scientist who knows oh-so-much about the world" but also
the "it's essential you expose your child to Mozart in the womb"
ends of the spectrum.</font><br>
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size="-1">Thanks</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Katie
Alcock</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Katie
Alcock, DPhil</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Lecturer</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Department of Psychology</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">City University</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Northampton Square</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">London EC1V 0HB</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Phone (+44) (0)20 7040 0167</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Fax (+44) (0)20 7040
8581</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Web</font> <a
href="http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/k.j.alcock"><font face="Arial"
size="-1">http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/k.j.alcock</font></a></blockquote
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<div>Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D.<br>
H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education, Psychology, and
Linguistics<br>
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716<br>
Phone: (302) 831-1634; Email: Roberta@udel.edu; Fax: (302)
831-4110<br>
Web site: http://copland.udel.edu/~roberta/ Lab web site:
www.udel.edu/ILP<br>
Web site for our PhD program: http://www.udel.edu/educ/</div>
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