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Blackwell handbook of language development / edited by Erika Hoff and Marilyn Shatz

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Description: xii, 502 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781405194594
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.93
Contents:
On the development of the field of language development
Part I. Basic foundations and theoretical approaches to language development
The neurodevelopmental bases of language
Formal and computational constraints on language development
Domain-general learning capacities
How inherently social is language?
Input and the acquisition of language : three questions
The emergence of language : a dynamical systems account
Part II. Language development in infancy
Experiential influences on speech perception and speech production in infancy
Acquiring linguistic structure
Cognitive processes in early word learning
Syntactic supports for word learning
Part III. Language development in early childhood
Phonological development
Mechanisms of word learning
The abstract nature of syntactic representation : consequences for a theory of learning
Conversational understanding in young children
Bilingual first language acquisition
Part IV. Language development after early childhood
Developing linguistic knowledge and language use across adolescence
Language and literacy in bilingual children in the early school years
Second language acquisition in childhood
Part V. Atypical language development
Children with specific language impairment : bridging the genetic and developmental perspectives
Atypical language development : autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders
Reading and reading disorders
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Book Book Main Library Reference Section Circulation C 401.93 B632 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 121071d

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

On the development of the field of language development

Part I. Basic foundations and theoretical approaches to language development

The neurodevelopmental bases of language

Formal and computational constraints on language development

Domain-general learning capacities

How inherently social is language?

Input and the acquisition of language : three questions

The emergence of language : a dynamical systems account

Part II. Language development in infancy

Experiential influences on speech perception and speech production in infancy

Acquiring linguistic structure

Cognitive processes in early word learning

Syntactic supports for word learning

Part III. Language development in early childhood

Phonological development

Mechanisms of word learning

The abstract nature of syntactic representation : consequences for a theory of learning

Conversational understanding in young children

Bilingual first language acquisition

Part IV. Language development after early childhood

Developing linguistic knowledge and language use across adolescence

Language and literacy in bilingual children in the early school years

Second language acquisition in childhood

Part V. Atypical language development

Children with specific language impairment : bridging the genetic and developmental perspectives

Atypical language development : autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders

Reading and reading disorders

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