TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoff,Erika
AU  - Shatz,Marilyn
TI  - Blackwell handbook of language development
SN  - 9781405194594
U1  - 401.93 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Language acquisition
N1  - 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
ER  -