Table of contents:
1: A Introduction to the Nature of Language and to the Central Themes and Issues in the Study of Language ‘M. Barrett’ 2: Prelinguistic Communication ‘V. Reddy 3: Early Speech Perception and Word Learning K. Plunkett, G G. Schafer’ 4:Phonological Acquisition ‘D. Ingam’ 5:Early Lexical Development ‘E. Dromi’ 6:The World of Words: Thoughts on the Development of a Lexicon ‘S.A Kuczaj’ 7:Early Syntactic Development:A Construction Grammar Approach ‘M. Tomasello, P.J Brooks’ 8:Some Aspects of Innateness and Complexity in Grammatical Acquisition ‘M. Maratos’ 9:The Development of Conversational and Discourse Skills ‘B.A Pan, C.E. Snow’ 10:Bilingual Language Development ‘S.Romaine’ 11:Sign Language Development ‘J.D Bonvillian’ 12:Language Development in Atypical Children ‘H. Tager- Flusberg’ 13:Specific Language Impairment ‘P. Fletcher’ 14:Towards a Biological Science of Language Development ‘J. Locke.’
This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development; bilingualism; precursors to language development in infancy; and the language development of children with developmental disabilities, including children with specific language impairment. Written by leading international authorities, each chapter summarises clearly and lucidly our current state of knowledge, and carefully explains and evaluates the theories which have been proposed to account for children's development in that area.
An invaluable resource for students taking advance courses in language and cognitive development, also for practitioners who have an interest in language development of normal children and in children with developmental difficulties.
1: A Introduction to the Nature of Language and to the Central Themes and Issues in the Study of Language ‘M. Barrett’ 2: Prelinguistic Communication ‘V. Reddy 3: Early Speech Perception and Word Learning K. Plunkett, G G. Schafer’ 4:Phonological Acquisition ‘D. Ingam’ 5:Early Lexical Development ‘E. Dromi’ 6:The World of Words: Thoughts on the Development of a Lexicon ‘S.A Kuczaj’ 7:Early Syntactic Development:A Construction Grammar Approach ‘M. Tomasello, P.J Brooks’ 8:Some Aspects of Innateness and Complexity in Grammatical Acquisition ‘M. Maratos’ 9:The Development of Conversational and Discourse Skills ‘B.A Pan, C.E. Snow’ 10:Bilingual Language Development ‘S.Romaine’ 11:Sign Language Development ‘J.D Bonvillian’ 12:Language Development in Atypical Children ‘H. Tager- Flusberg’ 13:Specific Language Impairment ‘P. Fletcher’ 14:Towards a Biological Science of Language Development ‘J. Locke.’
This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development; bilingualism; precursors to language development in infancy; and the language development of children with developmental disabilities, including children with specific language impairment. Written by leading international authorities, each chapter summarises clearly and lucidly our current state of knowledge, and carefully explains and evaluates the theories which have been proposed to account for children's development in that area.
An invaluable resource for students taking advance courses in language and cognitive development, also for practitioners who have an interest in language development of normal children and in children with developmental difficulties.