Robin N Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin N Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin N |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ancient and medieval experiments on child language: A comment on Bonvillian, Garber and Dell (1997)
A recent paper published by Bonvillian, Garber & Dell (1997) examines one ancient and two medieval studies of children's language development, whereby children were allegedly isolated from hearing any spoken language in order to discover what, if any, language the children would come to produce. Bonvillian et al. consider studies attributed to Psamtik I, an Egyptian Pharaoh in the seventh century BC; to James IV of Scotland in the fifteenth centu…
Contextual salience and colour adjectives
Experiments on the origins of language
Royal investigations of the origin of language
One method applied to the problem of language origins has been an experimental one: to examine the speech produced by a group of children who have been isolated from exposure to language at birth and cared for by (usually) dumb foster-mothers. Three such early investigations are acknowledged - those of Psamtik I of Egypte (663-610 B.C.), Frederick II of Sicily (1192-1250), and James IV of Scotland (1473-1513). A fourth such royal investigation by…
Constraints on Classificatory Skills in Young Children
On three occasions over a one‐year period 23 children aged 3–4 were asked to match target objects with other objects which were similar to the target in shape or in colour but not in both. A sequence of matches to each target was asked for. The structure of these sequences is examined for evidence of classificatory abilities. Many subjects appear to be attempting (not always successfully) to follow a strategy of ‘holding fast’ to their original c…
Comparative structures in English
Linguistics, epistemology and psychology share many common interests; for instance, an interest in the learning of language, in the nature of the fundamental units of which linguistic systems are composed, in the correspondence between language operations, logical operations and intellectual operations. The phenomenon of COMPARISON falls under the latter rubric, as do, for instance, NEGATION, ASSERTION and PREDICATION. In the literature of these …
Royal investigations of the origin of language
One method applied to the problem of language origins has been an experimental one: to examine the speech produced by a group of children who have been isolated from exposure to language at birth and cared for by (usually) dumb foster-mothers. Three such early investigations are acknowledged - those of Psamtik I of Egypte (663-610 B.C.), Frederick II of Sicily (1192-1250), and James IV of Scotland (1473-1513). A fourth such royal investigation by…
Comparative structures in English
Linguistics, epistemology and psychology share many common interests; for instance, an interest in the learning of language, in the nature of the fundamental units of which linguistic systems are composed, in the correspondence between language operations, logical operations and intellectual operations. The phenomenon of COMPARISON falls under the latter rubric, as do, for instance, NEGATION, ASSERTION and PREDICATION. In the literature of these …
Comparative structures in English
Linguistics, epistemology and psychology share many common interests; for instance, an interest in the learning of language, in the nature of the fundamental units of which linguistic systems are composed, in the correspondence between language operations, logical operations and intellectual operations. The phenomenon of COMPARISON falls under the latter rubric, as do, for instance, NEGATION, ASSERTION and PREDICATION. In the literature of these …
Constraints on Classificatory Skills in Young Children
On three occasions over a one‐year period 23 children aged 3–4 were asked to match target objects with other objects which were similar to the target in shape or in colour but not in both. A sequence of matches to each target was asked for. The structure of these sequences is examined for evidence of classificatory abilities. Many subjects appear to be attempting (not always successfully) to follow a strategy of ‘holding fast’ to their original c…
Royal investigations of the origin of language
One method applied to the problem of language origins has been an experimental one: to examine the speech produced by a group of children who have been isolated from exposure to language at birth and cared for by (usually) dumb foster-mothers. Three such early investigations are acknowledged - those of Psamtik I of Egypte (663-610 B.C.), Frederick II of Sicily (1192-1250), and James IV of Scotland (1473-1513). A fourth such royal investigation by…
Contextual salience and colour adjectives
Experiments on the origins of language
Ancient and medieval experiments on child language: A comment on Bonvillian, Garber and Dell (1997)
A recent paper published by Bonvillian, Garber & Dell (1997) examines one ancient and two medieval studies of children's language development, whereby children were allegedly isolated from hearing any spoken language in order to discover what, if any, language the children would come to produce. Bonvillian et al. consider studies attributed to Psamtik I, an Egyptian Pharaoh in the seventh century BC; to James IV of Scotland in the fifteenth centu…
Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)