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The Cambridge handbook of child language / edited by Edith L. Bavin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: x, 596 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm. ; casedISBN:
  • 9780521883375
  • 0521883377
  • 9780521883375:
Other title:
  • Handbook of child language
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.93
Contents:

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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