Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Emergentism and language impairment in children: its all about change

by julia l. evans

in brain, behavior, an learning in language and reading disorders

"Cognitivism" uses the omputer as a metaphor for the human brain.
"Empiriciam" versus "Nativism": nurture v. nature. Combined view: "interactionist perspective"

Emergentism: the brain is a complex system that may have "radical novelty." It is a coherent integrated whole. Self-organization.


"STudies of typical and atypical lang. development are shifting away from the focus on the static, globally ordered, stage-like patterns in children's language, toward an emergentist view of language development as a flexible, transient, variable phenomenon."

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