Intro -- Blackwell Handbook of Language Development -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. On the Development of the Field of Language Development -- Part I. Basic Foundations and Theoretical Approaches to Language Development -- Introduction -- 2. The Neurodevelopmental Bases of Language -- 3. Formal and Computational Constraints on Language Development -- 4. Domain-General Learning Capacities -- 5. How Inherently Social is Language? -- 6. Input and the Acquisition of Language: Three Questions -- 7. The Emergence of Language: A Dynamical Systems Account
Part II. Language Development in Infancy -- Introduction -- 8. Experiential Influences on Speech Perception and Speech Production in Infancy -- 9. Acquiring Linguistic Structure -- 10. Cognitive Processes in Early Word Learning -- 11. Syntactic Supports for Word Learning -- Part III. Language Development in Early Childhood -- Introduction -- 12. Phonological Development -- 13. Mechanisms of Word Learning -- 14. The Abstract Nature of Syntactic Representations: Consequences for a Theory of Learning -- 15. Conversational Understanding in Young Children -- 16. Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Part IV. Language Development after Early Childhood -- Introduction -- 17. Developing Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use Across Adolescence -- 18. Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children in the Early School Years -- 19. Second Language Acquisition in Childhood -- Part V. Atypical Language Development -- Introduction -- 20. Children with Specific Language Impairment: Bridging the Genetic and Developmental Perspectives -- 21. Atypical Language Development: Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders -- 22. Reading and Reading Disorders -- Author Index -- Subject Index
