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The Cambridge handbook of child language

Title
The Cambridge handbook of child language / edited by Edith L. Bavin.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Bavin, Edith Laura.
Description
x, 596 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Cambridge handbooks in linguistics
Uniform Title
Cambridge handbooks in linguistics.
Subject
  • Children > Language > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Language acquisition > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Language arts (Early childhood) > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Verbal ability in children > Handbooks, manuals, etc
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: perspectives on child language / Edith L. Bavin -- Pt. I. Theoretical and methodological approaches -- 2. Innateness and learnability / Virginia Valian -- 3. Statistical learning / Erik Thiessen -- 4. Neurocognition of language development / Angela D. Friederici -- 5. The usage-based theory of language acquisition / Michael Tomasello -- 6. Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition / Sabine Stoll -- Pt. II. Early developments -- 7. Speech perception / Suzanne Curtin and Dan Hufnagle -- 8. Crosslinguistic perspectives on segmentation and categorization in early language acquisition / Barbara Hohle -- 9. From gesture to word / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Pt. III. Phonology, morphology and syntax -- 10. A dynamic systems approach to babbling and words / Marilyn M. Vihman, Rory A. DePaolis and Tamar Keren-Portnoy -- 11. The prosody of syllables, words and morphemes / Katherine Demuth -- 12. Grammatical categories / Heike Behrens -- 13. Verb argument structure / Shanley Allen -- 14. The first language acquisition of complex sentences / Barbara C. Lust, Claire Foley and Cristina D. Dye -- 15. The morphosyntax interface / Kamil Ud Deen -- Pt. IV. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse -- 16. Lexical meaning / Eve V. Clark -- 17. Sentence scope / Stephen Crain -- 18. Sentence processing / Jesse Snedeker -- 19. Pragmatic development / Judith Becker Bryant -- 20. Language development in narrative contexts / Ruth A. Berman -- Pt. V. Varieties of development -- 21. Children with two languages / Barbara Zurer Pearson -- 22. Sign language acquisition studies / Diane Lillo-Martin -- 23. Children with specific language impairment / J. Bruce Tomblin -- 24. Language symptoms and their possible sources in specific language impairment / Laurence B. Leonard -- 25. The language of children with autism / Rhiannon J. Luyster and Catherine Lord -- 26. Language development in genetic disorders / Fiona M. Richardson and Michael S. C. Thomas.
ISBN
  • 9780521883375 (hardback)
  • 0521883377 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2008045117
  • 40016595738
OCLC
  • ocn262894406
  • 262894406
  • SCSB-5466287
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries