The Language of Children Evolution and Development of Secondary Consciousness and Language

by Holzman, Mathilda

• ISBN13: 9781557865168
• ISBN10: 1557865167
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This book provides a very readable introduction to how children acquire and use language for students of psychology, language and education.

Author Biography

Mathilda Holzman is Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study of Tufts University. She holds a PhD from the University of Washington and has written widely on the subject of child development.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi	(2)
List of Tables	viii	(2)
Preface	x	(2)
Acknowledgments	xii
1 Introduction	1	(6)
2 Signal Systems of Animal in the Wild	7	(10)
3 Animals in Contact with People	17	(18)
4 From Signals and Signaling to Syntactic Language and Communication	35	(16)
5 The Prelinguistic Infant	51	(27)
6 The One-Word Period	78	(39)
7 The Linguistic System and Early Language Development	117	(27)
8 The Communication Skills of Young Children	144	(19)
9 Semantic Development	163	(32)
10 Reading	195	(17)
11 Bilingualism and Second-language Learning	212	(15)
12 Sociolinguistics	227	(18)
Glossary	245	(4)
References	249	(11)
Index	260