Blackwell Handbook of Language Development

Name: Blackwell Handbook of Language Development
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ISBN: 9781405194594

ISBN-10: 1405194596

ISBN-13: 9781405194594

Edition: 2009

Authors: Erika Hoff, Marilyn Shatz

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List price: $97.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is author of Language Development (2005).Marilyn Shatz is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan. She is author of A Toddler's Life (1994).



List of Contributors


Preface



On the Development of the Field of Language Development




Basic Foundations and Theoretical Approaches to Language Development:


Introduction



The Neurodevelopmental Bases of Language




Formal and Computational Constraints on Language Development




Domain-General Learning Capacities




How Inherently Social is Language?




Input and the Acquisition of Language: Three Questions




The Emergence of Language: A Dynamical Systems Account




Language Development in Infancy:


Introduction



Experiential Influences on Speech Perception and Speech Production in Infancy




Acquiring Linguistic Structure




Cognitive Processes in Early Word Learning




Syntactic Supports for Word Learning




Language Development in Early Childhood:


Introduction



Phonological Development




Mechanisms of Word Learning




The Abstract Nature of Syntactic Representations: Consequences for a Theory of Learning




Conversational Understanding in Young Children




Bilingual First Language Acquisition




Language Development after Early Childhood:


Introduction



Developing Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use Across Adolescence




Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children in the Early School Years




Second Language Acquisition in Childhood




Atypical Language Development:


Introduction



Children with Specific Language Impairment: Bridging the Genetic and Developmental Perspectives




Atypical Language Development: Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders




Reading and Reading Disorders



Author Index


Subject Index