Research Methods in Child Language

A Practical Guide
Herausgegeben von Hoff, Erika

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The underlying knowledge and mechanisms that enable language acquisition are hidden inside the mind of the child, and researchers depend on an array of tools to better understand children's language skills and knowledge at different levels of development.

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This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development.
Presents a comprehensive survey of laboratory and naturalistic techniques used in the study of different domains of language, age ranges, and populations, and explains the questions addressed by each technique
Presents new research methods, such as the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study the activity of the brain
Expands on more traditional research methods such as collection, transcription, and coding of speech samples that have been transformed by new hardware and software

Produktdetails

• GMLZ - Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9781444331240
• ISBN-10: 1444331248
• Artikelnr.: 33684871

Autorenporträt

Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Language Development, 4th Edition (2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Section 1: Studying infants
and others using nonverbal methods Section 2: Assessing language knowledge
and processes in children who talk Section 3: Capturing children's language
experience and language production Section 4: Studying Multiple Languages
and Special Populations