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Slobin has extensively studied the organization of information about spatial relations and motion events by speakers of different languages, including both children and adults. He has argued that becoming a competent speaker of a language requires learning certain language-specific modes of thinking, which he dubbed "thinking for speaking". Slobin's "thinking for speaking" view can be described as a contemporary, moderate version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis , which claims that the language we learn shapes the way we perceive reality and think about it. This view is often contrasted with the " Language Acquisition Device " view of Noam Chomsky and others, who think of language acquisition as a process largely independent of Learning and Cognitive Development . Slobin's work has demonstrated the importance of cross-linguistic comparison for the study of language acquisition and Psycholinguistics in general. |
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