Language Development

This special tribute to Elizabeth Ann Bates--a psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist--spans her brilliant career of wide-ranging interdisciplinary interests. It should appeal to international scholars in the fields of develo..

This text provides preservice and in-service teachers with a model for engaging in effective instruction with the variety of students encountered in college English as a second language or foreign language classrooms. The approach is based on the principles of Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy...

Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings. Word learning is here understood as the outcome of overlapping and interacting processes, starting with an infant’s learning of native speech sounds to segmenting proto-words from fluent speech, ma..

The contributors to this volume discuss different paradigms and approaches in infant language and cognition, pushing the frontiers of research by innovatively combining methods, introducing new measures, and demonstrating the use of technologies and measurement approaches that can inform the study o..

This bk zeroes in on underlying definitional questions of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) i.e.: How are we assessg what we study? Are we talkg about the same phenomena? What are its implications for cognitive & developmental theory & clinical practice..

This book covers a range of exceptional circumstances and is written in a jargon-free style, including a glossary of linguistic and medical terminology. This text is suitable for both students and practitioners in the fields of psycholinguistics,..

This book covers a range of exceptional circumstances and is written in a jargon-free style, including a glossary of linguistic and medical terminology. This text is suitable for both students and practitioners in the fields of psycholinguistics,..

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience...

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience...

First published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, that children could not learn their native language without substantial innate knowledge of its grammatical structure. It is argued that the notion is as problematic for contemporary theories of development as it was for theori..

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy. It includes a new introduction from the authors which evaluates research from the past 25 years. Phonological Skill..