Emergence of linguistic abilities / edited by Sophie Kern, Frederique Gayraud and Egidio Marsico.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kern, Sophie.

Gayraud, Frédérique.

Marsico, Egidio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book attempts to address an interrelated set of issues about the emergence of linguistic abilities in the child. The various chapters intend to shed light on a particular and critical period in language development: the first three years of life. It is generally assumed in the field of the ontogeny of language that the child's first years of life are particularly crucial. This period is even sometimes considered as predictive at least in the short term, of the later abilities to communic...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART III; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART IV; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; LIST OF AUTHORS; NOTES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-282-19028-8

9786612190285

1-4438-0640-4

OCLC:

823720709