Dan Slobin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dan Slobin

American linguist

Date of Birth: 07-May-1939

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Profession: psychologist, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Dan Slobin

  • Dan Isaac Slobin (born May 7, 1939) is a Professor Emeritus of psychology and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Slobin has made major contributions to the study of children's language acquisition, and his work has demonstrated the importance of cross-linguistic comparison for the study of language acquisition and psycholinguistics in general. Slobin received a B.A.
  • in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1960 and a Ph.D.
  • in social psychology from Harvard University in 1964.
  • In addition to working at the University of California, Berkeley, Slobin has served as a visiting professor at several universities around the world, including Bogaziçi University, Tel-Aviv University, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Stanford University. 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.

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