The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

by Bavin, Edith L.

• ISBN13: 9781107605428
• ISBN10: 1107605423
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-21
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The best survey of the subject available, 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: perspectives on child language

Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Innateness and learnability

Statistical learning

Neurocognition of language development

The usage-based theory of language acquisition

Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition

Early Developments

Speech perception

Crosslinguistic perspectives on segmentation and categorization in early language acquisition

From gesture to word

Phonology, Morphology and Syntax

A dynamic systems approach to babbling and words

The prosody of syllables, words and morphemes

Grammatical categories

Verb argument structure

The first language acquisition of complex sentences

The morphosyntax interface

Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse

Lexical meaning

Sentence scope

Sentence processing

Pragmatic development Judith

Language development in narrative contexts

Varieties of Development

Children with two languages

Sign language acquisition studies

Children with specific language impairment

Language symptoms and their possible sources in specific language impairment

The language of children with autism

Language development in genetic disorders

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