Language Acquisition: Studies in First Language Development - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521259746 ISBN 13: 9780521259743

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Riassunto

An invaluable resource for students and professionals alike with an interest in child language acquisition.

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Descrizione del libro

Language Acquisition is the work of distinguished specialists from many countries and will provide an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike who have an interest in the field of child language acquisition. This second edition reflects recent theoretical developments in the field, and about half the chapters are entirely new.

Contenuti

Preface; Part I. Contexts and Determinants: 1. Psychosocial aspects of language acquisition Maya Hickmann; 2. Language acquisition and cognition Robin N. Campbell; 3. Language acquisition and linguistic theory Helen Goodluck; 4. Conversations with children Catherine E. Snow; 5. Learnability Martin Atkinson; 6. Variation in child language Gordon Wells; Part II. The Development of Linguistic Systems: Phonology: 7. Prespeech segmental feature development Rachel E. Stark; 8. Prosodic development David Crystal; 9. Early strategies for the perception and production of words and sounds Paula Menyuk, Lise Menn and Ronnie Silber; 10. Phonological development: production David Ingram; 11. Speech perception and the emergent lexicon: an ethological approach John L. Locke; 12. Phonological development: a crosslinguistic perspective Marlys A. Macken; Part III. The Development of Linguistic Systems: Grammar: 13. Early vocabulary Patrick Griffiths; 14. Early syntax Ann M. Peters; 15. Assessing morphological development Bruce L. Derwing and William J. Baker; 16. Personal pronouns Shulamuth Chiat; 17. Tense and aspect Richard M. Weist; 18. Modality Ursula Stephany; 19. Deixis Roger Wales; 20. A crosslinguistic perspective: morphology and syntax Ruth A. Berman; Part IV. Later Language Development: 21. Some fundamental aspects of language development after age 5 Annette Karmiloff-Smith; 22. The development of reading: the acquisition of a cognitive skill Philip T. Smith; 23. Language acquisition and writing Katherine Perera; Notes to chapters; Bibliography and citation index; General index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0521259746
• ISBN 13: 9780521259743
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 630
• Redattore: Fletcher Paul, Garman Michael
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile