| Description |
xxi, 433 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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The Allyn & Bacon communication sciences and disorders series |
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Allyn & Bacon communication sciences and disorders series.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: The Ancient Roots of Child Language Study -- Studies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Research from the 1950s to the Present -- Research Methods -- Childes -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 2.Communication Development In Infancy / Jacqueline Sachs -- Perceptual "Tuning" to Speech -- Segmentation -- Statistical Learning -- Early Communicative Attempts -- The Expression of Communicative Intent before Speech -- Characteristics of Intentional Communication -- The Forms and Functions of Early Communicative Behaviors -- The Assessment of Communicative Intent -- The Social Context of the Preverbal Infant -- The Sound of the Caregiver's Speech: "Listen to Me!" -- The Conversational Nature of the Caregiver's Speech: "Talk to Me!" -- Contexts for the Emergence of Object Reference: "Look at That!" -- Talk in Structured Situations: "Here's What We Say" -- Summary -- Suggested Projects |
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Contents note continued: Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 3. Phonological Development / Lise Menn -- English Speech Sounds and Sound Patterns -- Phonetics: The Production and Description of Speech Sounds -- Descriptive Features: Classifying Sounds by How They Are Produced -- The Major Sound Classes: Vowels and Consonants -- The Shape of the Vocal Tract: Position of Articulation -- Contrast: The Phoneme -- Phonotactics: Constraints on Possible Words -- Suprasegmental Aspects of Speech: Stress and Intonation Contour -- Production: The Prelinguistic Period -- Sounds of Babbling -- The Relationship between Babbling and Speech -- Learning to Make Words -- The Beginning of Phonological Development: Protowords -- Words and Sounds: Vocabulary and Phonology Interact -- A Cognitive Approach to the Acquisition of Phonology -- Learning to Pronounce -- How Real Children Pronounce Words -- How to Describe Regularity in Children's Renditions of Adult Words |
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Contents note continued: Rules, Templates, and Strategies -- Phonological Development: Norms and Measures -- Phonetic Inventories of Young Children -- Accuracy of Production -- Ages and Stages of Acquisition -- Atypical Development -- The Acquisition of English Morphophonology -- Parents' Role in Phonological Development -- Language Variation in the United States: Languages, Dialects, and Speech Styles -- Spanish in the United States -- Regional and Ethnic Dialectal Differences in English -- Pronunciation in Conversational Speech -- Summary -- Child Phonology Problems -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 4. Semantic Development / Barbara Alexander Pan -- The Relations between Words and Their Referents -- Mental Images -- Theoretical Perspectives on Semantic Development -- Learning Theory -- Developmental Theories -- Fast Mapping -- Early Words -- The Study of Vocabulary -- What Are Early Words Like? |
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Contents note continued: Unconventional Word/Meaning Mappings -- Invented Words -- Differences between Comprehension and Production -- How Adult Speech Influences Children's Semantic Development -- Later Semantic Development -- Home and School Factors Influencing Vocabulary Development -- Assessing Vocabulary in Bilingual Children -- Metalinguistic Development -- Word-Concept Awareness -- Word-Sound Awareness -- Word-Meaning Awareness: Humor, Metaphor, and Irony -- Word Definitions -- A Life-Long Enterprise -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 5. PUTTING WORDS TOGETHER / Andrea Zukowski -- The Nature of Syntactic Rules -- Studying Syntactic Development -- Entering the Complex Linguistic System -- Measuring Syntactic Growth -- Two-Word Utterances -- Telegraphic Speech -- Semantic Relations -- Early Grammar -- Children's Early Comprehension of Syntax -- Developing Grammatical Morphemes -- Brown's Fourteen Morphemes |
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Contents note continued: Order of Acquisition -- Optional Infinitives -- Productivity of Children's Morphology -- Cross-Linguistic Data -- Different Sentence Modalities -- Negatives -- Questions -- Later Developments in Preschoolers -- Passives -- Coordinations -- Relative Clauses -- Beyond the Preschool Years -- Anaphora -- Interpreting "Empty" Subjects in Infinitive Clauses -- Knowledge versus Processing -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 6. Language In Social Contexts: Development Of Communicative Competence / Judith Becker Bryant -- Language in Social Contexts -- Nonegocentric Language -- Requests -- Conversational Skills -- Choices among Language Varieties -- The Challenge of Acquiring Communicative Competence -- How Do Children Acquire Communicative Competence? -- Family Influences -- Schools' and Peers' Influence -- Children's Cognitions and Efforts to Achieve Communicative Competence |
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Contents note continued: Why Does Communicative Competence Matter? -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 7. Theoretical Approaches To Language Acquisition / John D. Bonvillian -- Distinguishing Features of Theoretical Approaches -- Structuralism versus Functionalism -- Competence versus Performance -- Nativism versus Empiricism -- Evaluating Research Methods -- Classic Behavioral Approaches -- General Assumptions -- Behavioral Language Learning -- Evaluation of the Behavioral Approaches -- Linguistic Approaches -- General Assumptions -- LAD and Development -- Evaluation of the Linguistic Approaches -- Interactionist Approaches -- General Assumptions -- Cognitive Approaches: Piaget's Theory and Information-Processing Models -- Information-Processing Approach -- Social Interaction Approach -- Gestural and Usage-Based Approach -- Gestural and Sign Origins -- Usage-Based Theory -- Evaluation of Usage-Based Theory -- Summary |
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Contents note continued: Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 8. Variation In Language Development: Implications For Research And Theory / Ingrid A. Willenberg -- The History of Variation in Child Language Research -- Variation in Early Words -- Segmenting the Speech Stream -- Variation in Early Sentences -- Stability of Style across Words and Sentences -- Sources of Variation -- Child Factors -- Input Factors -- Socioeconomic Status (SES) -- Linguistic Factors -- Bilingual Language Learners -- Context: The Interaction of Child, Caregiver, and Language -- Implications of Variation for Theories of Language Acquisition -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 9. Atypical Language Development / Nan Bernstein Ratner -- Communicative Development and Severe Hearing Impairment -- The Nature and Effects of Differing Types of Hearing Loss -- Phonological Development -- Language Development |
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Contents note continued: Lexical Development -- Grammatical Development -- Reading and Writing Skills -- Pragmatic Skills -- Educational Approaches to the Development of Language in Children Who Are Deaf -- Acquisition of ASL as a First Language -- Teaching Sign Language to Typically Developing Babies with Normal Hearing -- Sign Language and the Brain -- Are You at Risk for Hearing Impairment? -- Intellectual Disability and Communicative Development -- Cognitive Disability and the Language-Acquisition Process -- Language Development -- Teaching Language to Children with Intellectual Disability -- Autism Spectrum Disorder/Pervasive Developmental Disorder -- General Characteristics -- Causation -- Specific Social and Communicative Weaknesses in Autism Spectrum Disorder -- Language -- Echolalia -- Treatment -- Specific Language Impairment -- General Identity and Prevalence -- Language Profiles of Children with Specific Language Impairment -- Lexicon -- Morphosyntax -- Pragmatics |
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Contents note continued: Concomitant Problems -- Causative Explanations -- Models of SLI -- Is SLI Universal? -- Language Intervention with Children Who Are Specifically Language Impaired -- Atypical Speech Development -- Childhood Stuttering -- Evaluation of Suspected Speech and Language Disorders in Children -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 10. Language And Literacy In The School Years / Adina R. Schick -- Extended Oral Discourse -- Autobiographical and Fictional Narratives -- Cultural and Linguistic Variations in Narrative Development -- Extended Discourse in the Classroom -- Metalinguistic Development in the School Years -- Language Play and Verbal Humor -- Phonological Awareness -- Semantic and Syntactic Awareness -- Pragmatic Awareness -- Metalinguistic Awareness in Two Languages -- Early Literacy: Exposure to Print -- Reading -- Components of Reading -- Reading Development -- Approaches to Reading Instruction |
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Contents note continued: Learning to Read in a Second Language -- When Learning to Read Is Difficult -- Writing -- Development of Spelling -- Development of Writing and Genres of Writing -- Learning to Write in a Second Language -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References -- 11. Developments In The Adult Years / Loraine K. Obler -- The Language of Peer and Social Groups -- Language at Work -- Second-Language Acquisition in Adulthood -- Language Developments with Advanced Age -- Lexicon -- Comprehension -- Discourse -- Speech -- Nonlinguistic Cognitive Factors Influencing Performance -- Language Strategies with Aging -- Adult Language and Brain Damage -- Aphasia -- Right-Hemisphere Damage and Language -- Language in the Dementias -- Summary -- Suggested Projects -- Suggested Readings -- Key Words -- References |
| Summary |
Combining the contributions of experts and highly-respected researchers, this text offers a definitive exploration of language acquisition and development from infancy through adulthood. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, it examines what we know about language development-addressing communication development in infancy, phonological development, semantic development, morphology and syntax. Broadening the scope of study, it puts language development into larger biological , social and cultural contexts, while investigating individual differences, atypical development, literacy and even language development in adults. This edition includes more on cross-linguistic language acquisition (emphasizing Spanish), new research on the nature and treatment of language disorders in children, and new perspectives on the impact of culture on language development and variation |
| Notes |
"International edition"--cover |
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Previous ed., 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Language develoipment
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Language acquisition.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| Author |
Gleason, Jean Berko.
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Ratner, Nan Bernstein.
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| LC no. |
2012019585 |
| ISBN |
9780132612388 |
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0132612380 |
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9780132985321 |
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0132985322 |
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