Blackwell handbook of language development / edited by Erika Hoff and Marilyn Shatz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoff, Erika, 1951-

Shatz, Marilyn

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Series:

Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 502 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Handbook of language development

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex [England] ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 On the Development of the Field of Language Development / Marilyn Shatz 1

Part I Basic Foundations and Theoretical Approaches to Language Development 17

2 The Neurodevelopmental Bases of Language / Valerie L. Shafer, Karen Garrido-Nag 21

3 Formal and Computational Constraints on Language Development / Helen Goodluck 46

4 Domain-General Learning Capacities / Jenny R. Saffran, Erik D. Thiessen 68

5 How Inherently Social is Language? / Dare Baldwin, Meredith Meyer 87

6 Input and the Acquisition of Language: Three Questions / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Erika Hoff 107

7 The Emergence of Language: A Dynamical Systems Account / Julia L. Evans 128

Part II Language Development in Infancy 149

8 Experiential Influences on Speech Perception and Speech Production in Infancy / Linda Polka, Susan Rvachew, Karen Mattock 153

9 Acquiring Linguistic Structure / LouAnn Gerken 173

10 Cognitive Processes in Early Word Learning / Diane Poulin-Dubois, Susan A. Graham 191

11 Syntactic Supports for Word Learning / Letitia R. Naigles, Lauren D. Swensen 212

Part III Language Development in Early Childhood 233

12 Phonological Development / Carol Stoel-Gammon, Anna Vogel Sosa 238

13 Mechanisms of Word Learning / Gil Diesendruck 257

14 The Abstract Nature of Syntactic Representations: Consequences for a Theory of Learning / Jeffrey Lidz 277

15 Conversational Understanding in Young Children / Michael Siegal, Luca Surian 304

16 Bilingual First Language Acquisition / Fred Genesee, Elena Nicoladis 324

Part IV Language Development after Early Childhood 343

17 Developing Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use Across Adolescence / Ruth A. Berman 347

18 Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children in the Early School Years / D. Kimbrough Oller, Linda Jarmulowicz 368

19 Second Language Acquisition in Childhood / Johanne Paradis 387

Part V Atypical Language Development 407

20 Children with Specific Language Impairment: Bridging the Genetic and Developmental Perspectives / Mabel L. Rice 411

21 Atypical Language Development: Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders / Helen Tager-Flusberg 432

22 Reading and Reading Disorders / Heikki Lyytinen, Jane Erskine, Mikko Aro, Ulla Richardson 454.

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

ISBN:

1405171596

9781405171595

Publisher Number:

99960382275

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.