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The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

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The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

Edith L. Bavin, La Trobe University, Victoria
April 2012
Paperback
9781107605428
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9781107455504

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    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.

    • The most comprehensive and representative survey of the subject available
    • Brings together the world's leading experts in the field of child language
    • Multidisciplinary - will appeal to readers in a wide range of subjects, including linguists, clinicians, developmental psychologists, cognitive scientists, speech pathologists and anthropologists

    Reviews & endorsements

    Reviews of the hardback: '… a standard work … it succeeds magnificently in charting the advances made in theory, methodology and application over the last four decades.' Paul Fletcher, University College Cork

    'It is rare to see such a broad and representative range of perspectives covered in a single volume … an excellent resource for researchers as well as those hoping to learn more about child language acquisition …' Janet F. Werker, University of British Columbia

    '… this handbook gives a thorough picture of the theoretical debates, findings and methodologies of the field of language acquisition.' Journal of Child Language

    '… 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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    Product details

    April 2012
    Paperback
    9781107605428
    608 pages
    247 × 174 × 26 mm
    1.18kg
    1 b/w illus. 13 tables
    Replaced by 9781107455504

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction: perspectives on child language Edith L. Bavin
    • Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches:
    • 2. Innateness and learnability Virginia Valian
    • 3. Statistical learning Eric 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
    • Part II. Early Developments:
    • 7. Speech perception Suzanne Curtin and Dan Hufnagle
    • 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. 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
    • Part 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
    • Part 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.
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    • Edith L. Bavin, Virginia Valian, Eric Thiessen, Angela D. Friederici, Michael Tomasello, Sabine Stoll, Suzanne Curtin, Dan Hufnagle, Barbara Höhle, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Marilyn M. Vihman, Rory A. DePaolis, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Katherine Demuth, Heike Behrens, Shanley Allen, Barbara C. Lust, Claire Foley, Cristina D. Dye, Kamil Ud Deen, Eve V. Clark, Stephen Crain, Jesse Snedeker, Judith Becker Bryant, Ruth A. Berman, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Diane Lillo-Martin, J. Bruce Tomblin, Laurence B. Leonard, Rhiannon J. Luyster, Catherine Lord, Fiona M. Richardson, Michael S. C. Thomas

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    • Edith L. Bavin , La Trobe University, Victoria

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

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