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The Cambridge handbook of child language /

The Cambridge handbook of child language / Handbook of child language edited by Edith L. Bavin. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - x, 596 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm. ; cased. - Cambridge handbooks in linguistics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[PART 1: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches] Innateness and learnability / Virginia Valian -- Statistical learning / Eric Thiessen -- Neurocognition of language development / Angela D. Friederici -- The usage-based theory of language acquisition / Michael Tomasello -- Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition / Sabine Stoll. [PART 2: Early developments] Speech perception / Suzanne Curtin and Dan Hufnagle -- Crosslinguistic perspectives on segmentation and categorization in early language acquisition / Barbara Höhle -- From gesture to word / Susan Goldin-Meadow. [PART 3: Phonology, Morphology and Syntax] A dynamic systems approach to babbling and words / Marilyn M. Vihman, Rory A. DePaolis and Tamar Keren-Portnoy -- The prosody of syllables, words and morphemes / Katherine Demuth -- Grammatical categories / Heike Behrens -- Verb argument structure / Shanley Allen -- The first language acquisition of complex sentences / Barbara C. Lust, Claire Foley and Cristina D. Dye -- The morphosyntax interface / Kamil Ud Deen. [PART 4: Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse] Lexical meaning / Eve V. Clark -- Sentence scope / Stephen Crain -- Sentence processing / Jesse Snedeker -- Pragmatic development / Judith Becker Bryant -- Language development in narrative contexts / Ruth A. Berman. [PART 5: Varieties of development] Children with two languages / Barbara Zurer Pearson -- Sign language acquisition studies / Diane Lillo-Martin -- Children with specific language impairment / J. Bruce Tomblin -- Language symptoms and their possible sources in specific language impairment / Laurence B. Leonard -- The language of children with autism / Rhiannon J. Luyster and Catherine Lord -- Language development in genetic disorders / Fiona M. Richardson and Michael S. C. Thomas.

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Language arts (Early childhood)--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Verbal ability in children--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Psycholinguistics
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Child, developmental, and lifespan psychology

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