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The Handbook of child language
- Title
- The Handbook of child language / edited by Paul Fletcher and Brian MacWhinney.
- Publication
- Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1995.
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- Description
- x, 786 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- This volume, in its 25 definitive chapters on normal and nonnormal language development, represents the authoritative and up-to-date complete sourcebook on child language development. All aspects of child language development are addressed, including phonetics, phonology, grammar, and lexical development. Connectionism and government-binding theory, as applied to language development, are fully represented. The relevance of input, cognition, and social factors to language development is explored.
- Chapters on methodology, particularly using computer databases, are provided for both normal and nonnormal acquisition.
- Series Statement
- Blackwell reference
- Uniform Title
- Blackwell reference.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-778) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Parameters in Acquisition / Jurgen M. Meisel -- 2. Connectionist Approaches to Language Acquisition / Kim Plunkett -- 3. The Impact of Language Socialization on Grammatical Development / Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin -- 4. Individual Differences and their Implications for Theories of Language Development / Elizabeth Bates, Philip S. Dale and Donna Thal -- 5. Computational Analysis of Interactions / Brian MacWhinney -- 6. Issues in the Study of Input: Finetuning, Universality, Individual and Developmental Differences, and Necessary Causes / Catherine E. Snow -- 7. Discourse Organization and the Development of Reference to Person, Space, and Time / Maya Hickmann -- 8. Bilingual Language Acquisition / Annick de Houwer -- 9. Socialization across Contexts / Richard Ely and Jean Berko Gleason -- 10. Development of the Capacity for Spoken Language / John L. Locke -- 11. Phonetic Abilities in the First Year of Life / Ray D. Kent and Giuliana Miolo.
- 12. Phonological Development / Lise Menn and Carol Stoel-Gammon -- 13. Early Lexical Development / Martyn Barrett -- 14. Later Lexical Development and Word Formation / Eve V. Clark -- 15. The Role of Syntax in Verb Learning / Lila R. Gleitman and Jane Gillette -- 16. Reinterpreting Children's Sentence Comprehension: Toward a New Framework / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek -- 17. Strategies in the Acquisition of Syntax / Ann M. Peters -- 18. Phrase Structure and Functional Categories / Andrew Radford -- 19. Empty Categories and Complex Sentences: The Case of wh-questions / Jill de Villiers -- 20. Computational Approaches to the Analysis of Language Impairment / Jon F. Miller and Thomas Klee -- 21. Phonological Impairment / Laurence B. Leonard -- 22. Grammatical Impairment / Paul Fletcher and Richard Ingham -- 23. Pragmatic Impairments / Holly K. Craig -- 24. Language Development in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome / Robin S. Chapman.
- 25. Lexical and Grammatical Development in Children with Early Hemisphere Damage: A Cross-sectional View from Birth to Adolescence / Julie A. Eisele and Dorothy M. Aram.
- ISBN
- 0631184058
- LCCN
- 94015066
- OCLC
- ocm30319385
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries