The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

by Edith L. Bavin (Editor), Letitia R. Naigles (Editor)

Overview

The best survey of the subject available, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other handbook on the market, with chapters covering both theories and methods in child language research and tracing the development of language from prelinguistic infancy to teenager. Drawing on both established and more recent research, the Handbook surveys the crosslinguistic study of language acquisition; prelinguistic development; bilingualism; sign languages; specific language impairment, language and autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. This book will be an essential reference for students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, speech pathology, education and anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781316349328
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/26/2015
Series:	Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Edith L. Bavin is Professor in the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe University, Australia.

Letitia R. Naigles is Professor in Psychology at the University of Connecticut.

Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: perspectives on child language Letitia R. Naigles and Edith L. Bavin; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches: 2. Innateness and learnability Virginia Valian; 3. Statistical learning Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson; 4. Neurocognition of language development Angela D. Friederici and Michael A. Skeide; 5. The usage-based theory of language acquisition Michael Tomasello; 6. Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition Sabine Stoll; Part II. Early Developments: 7. Speech perception Suzanne Curtin and Stephanie Archer; 8. Crosslinguistic perspectives on segmentation and categorization in early language acquisition Barbara Höhle; 9. From gesture to word Susan Goldin-Meadow; Part III. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax: 10. Babbling and words: a dynamic systems perspective on phonological development Marilyn M. Vihman, Rory A. DePaolis and Tamar Keren-Portnoy; 11. The acquisition of prosodic phonology and morphology Katherine Demuth; 12. The acquisition of grammatical categories Heike Behrens; 13. Verb argument structure Shanley E. M. Allen; 14. The first language acquisition of complex sentences Barbara Lust, Claire Foley ‎and Cristina D. Dye; 15. The morphosyntax interface Kamil Ud Deen; Part IV. Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse: 16. Lexical meaning Eve V. Clark; 17. The acquisition of words Susan A. Graham, Valerie San Juan and Ena Vukatana; 18. Sentence scope Stephen Crain; 19. Sentence processing Jesse Snedeker and Yi Ting Huang; 20. Pragmatic development Judith Becker Bryant; 21. Language development beyond the sentence Ruth Berman; Part V. Varieties of Development: 22. Language development in bilingual children Erika Hoff; 23. Sign language acquisition studies Diane Lillo-Martin; 24. Children with specific language impairment (SLI) J. Bruce Tomblin; 25. Language symptoms and their possible sources of specific language impairment Laurence B. ‎Leonard; 26. Processing deficits in children with language impairments Lisa M. D. Archibald and Nicolette B. Noonan; 27. Language development in genetic disorders Fiona M. Richardson and Michael S. C. Thomas; 28. Language development in children with Williams syndrome: genes, modularity, and the importance of development Shevaun Lewis and Barbara Landau; 29. Language in children with autism spectrum disorders Letitia Naigles and Iris Chin; Part VI. Reading: 30. Precursors to reading: phonological awareness and letter knowledge Eva Marinus and Anne Castles; 31. Reading disorders Fiona J. Duff and Margaret J. Snowling; 32. Predictors of reading skills across languages Heikki ‎Lyytinen, Hua Shu and Ulla Richardson; 33. Neurobiology of reading disorders: implications of functional neuroimaging studies in dyslexia and specific reading comprehension deficits Katherine Swett, Stephen Bailey, Angela Sefcik and Laurie Cutting; 34. The development of reading comprehension skill: processing and memory Julie A. Van Dyke and Nicole Landi; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"… this book meets its stated aim to provide summaries of current work on a variety of language development topics."
Journal of Child Language

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