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Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Words

Year

2015

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

30m

Rating

TVPG

Performers

Kevin Flanigan

Written By

Kevin Flanigan

Publication Information

The Great Courses

Summary

Begin with a fun psycholinguistic experiment that shows how your brain processes new words. Explore the work of some major scholars of learning and language - Skinner, Watson, Chomsky - and get an exegesis of erudition. Delve into the process of language acquisition, including why a child might say, "I winned the game, Daddy!"

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