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(More customer reviews)I was a student in Dr. Jusczyk's class at Johns Hopkins a few years ago (fall of '98 I believe). He was a wonderful professor and taught one of the most challenging psychology courses, and he used his book (Discovery of Spoken Language) for the class. After that class, I remember seeing him on CNN discussing infants and language development, and I was just so impressed especially after having taken his class. Plus, he was so easy to approach and such a nice person. He wrote me a recommedation for a graduate program my senior year.
I was just sitting here crying when I found out that he died 2 years ago. I was just shocked. Tonight I just decided to search his name online and see if he had done any more CNN specials because every now and then I bring up his name in my graduate program when the issue of language development comes up. I always feel the urge to ask "Have you seen or read Peter Jusczyk's work?" Tonight I read that he had died unexpectedly in August of 2001.
I wrote Dr. Jusczyk an email once that said that I hope I find a career that I love as much as he loved his. You could just see how much he truly loved his work. My condolences to all of his loved ones.
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Speech carries information about the structure and organization oflanguage. Yet, speech is normally produced as a continuous stream without clearlydemarcated boundaries between words. A fundamental problem for any language learneris to segment speech in a way that correctly identifies the words of the language.This is a crucial step toward building a lexicon and learning about the grammaticalorganization of the language.The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the firstefforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the generalstudy of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story byproviding an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during thefirst year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infants learn theorganization of native language sound patterns.Peter Jusczyk examines the initialcapacities that infants possess for discriminating and categorizing speech soundsand how these capacities evolve as infants gain experience with native languageinput. Considerable attention is paid to ways speech perception capacities developso that listeners can recognize words in fluent speech. Jusczyk also looks at howinfants' growing knowledge of native language sound patterns may facilitate theacquisition of other aspects of language organization and discusses the relationshipbetween the learner's developing capacities for perceiving and producing speech. Anappendix reviews the test procedures used to evaluate infant speech perceptioncapacities.
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