David J Messer, Geoffrey J Turner

Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book identifies and assesses the importance of a range of influences on child language acquisition and development, paying particular attention to situational influences. Key issues are highlighted and recent research is succinctly presented. There are five sections: the deployment of speech during early development; linguistic interaction and family background: encoding the situation; multidimentional aspects of language development; and constraints on language development. There are twelve chapters on these themes contributed by leading researchers in this area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK / Palgrave Macmillan
• 1993 edition
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780312084745
• ISBN-10: 0312084749
• Artikelnr.: 24951763

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; C.E.Snow
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; D.Messer & G.Turner
PART 1: THE DEPLOYMENT OF SPEECH DURING EARLY DEVELOPMENT
The Relationship of Maternal Speech to Children's First Words; M.Harris
Is Early Speech Situational? An Examination of some Current Theories about the Relation of Early Utterances to the Context; A.Ninio
Affording Social
cognitive Skills in Young Children: the Overhearing Context; M.A.Forrester
PART 2: LINGUISTIC INTERACTION AND FAMILY BACKGROUND
Initial Production of Inflections in Bilingual Children; T.Klausen, M.S.Subritzky & M.Hayashi
Social Class, Maternal Speech and the Child's Semantic Orientation; G.J.Turner
PART 3: SITUATIONAL INFLUENCES ON GRAMMAR
Critical Influences on the Acquisition of Verb Transitivity; R.Ingham
Do Young Children use Definite Expressions for Specific References?; R.J.Stevenson & K.M.Sims
PART 4: MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
Children's Comprehension and Production of Locative Expressions; M.L.Donaldson & K.Laing
Intonation and Function of Four Year Old's Tag Constructions; B.Lloyd & R.Goodwin
PART 5: CONSTRAINTS ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Phonological Processes and Sign Language Development; J.Clibbens & M.Harris
Increasing Metalinguistic Awareness to assist Phonological Change; J.Howell, A.Hill, E.Dean & D.Waters
The Nature of the Linguistic and Communication Difficulties of Children with Atuism; R.Jordan
Bibliography
Index