Research Methods in Child Language A Practical Guide

by Hoff, Erika

• ISBN13: 9781444331257
• ISBN10: 1444331256
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development. Presents a comprehensive survey of laboratory and naturalistic techniques used in the study of different domains of language, age ranges, and populations, and explains the questions addressed by each technique Presents new research methods, such as the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study the activity of the brain Expands on more traditional research methods such as collection, transcription, and coding of speech samples that have been transformed by new hardware and software

Author Biography

Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Language Development, 4th Edition (2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (2006)

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Plates	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Preface	p. xvi
Studying Infants and Others Using Nonverbal Methods	p. 1
Habituation Procedures	p. 3
Intermodal Preferential Looking	p. 17
The Looking-While-Listening Procedure	p. 29
Neuroimaging Methods	p. 43
Methods for Studying Language in Infants: Back to the Future	p. 60
Assessing Language Knowledge and Processes in Children Who Talk	p. 77
Assessing Phonological Knowledge	p. 79
Assessing Vocabulary Skills	p. 100
Assessing Grammatical Knowledge (with Special Reference to the Graded Grammaticality Judgment Paradigm)	p. 113
Assessing Children's Narratives	p. 133
	p. 149
Using Priming Procedures with Children	p. 162
Studying Language Processing Using Eye Movements	p. 177
Capturing Children's Language Experience and Language Production	p. 191
Recording, Transcribing, and Coding Interaction	p. 193
Studying Gesture	p. 208
Dense Sampling	p. 226
Not Sampling, Getting It All	p. 240
Approaches to Studying Language in Preschool Classrooms	p. 254
Using the Childes Database	p. 271
Studying Multiple Languages and Special Populations	p. 285
Crosslinguistic Research	p. 287
Studying Children in Bilingual Environments	p. 300
Studying Children with Language Impairment	p. 317
Studying the Language Development of Children with Intellectual Disabilities	p. 330
Index	p. 347
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