Blackwell handbook of language development /
edited by Erika Hoff and Marilyn Shatz.
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- 1 online resource (xii, 502 pages) : illustrations.
- Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology .
- Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Basic foundations and theoretical approaches to language development -- Language development in infancy -- Language development in early childhood -- Language development after early childhood -- Atypical language development. The neurodevelopmental bases of language / Formal and computational constraints on language development / Domain-general learning capacities / How inherently social is language? / Input and the acquisition of language : three questions / The emergence of language : a dynamical systems account / Experiential influences on speech perception and speech production in infancy / Acquiring linguistic structure / Cognitive processes in early word learning / Syntactic supports for word learning / Phonological development / Mechanisms of word learning / The abstract nature of syntactic representations : consequences for a theory of learning / Conversational understanding in young children / Bilingual first language acquisition / Developing linguistic knowledge and language use across adolescence / Language and literacy in bilingual children in the early school years / Second language acquisition in childhood / pt V. Atypical language development. Children with specific language impairment : bridging the genetic and developmental perspectives / Atypical language development : autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders / Reading and reading disorders / Valerie L. Shafer and Karen Garrido-Nag -- Helen Goodluck -- Jenny R. Saffran and Erik D. Thiessen -- Dare Baldwin and Meredith Meyer -- Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole and Erika Hoff -- Julia L. Evans -- Linda Polka, Susan Rvachew, and Karen Mattock -- LouAnn Gerken -- Diane Poulin-Dubois and Susan A. Graham -- Letitia R. Naigles and Lauren D. Swensen -- Carol Stoel-Gammon and Anna Vogel Sosa -- Gil Diesendruck -- Jeffrey Lidz -- Michael Siegal and Luca Surian -- Fred Genesee and Elena Nicoladis -- Ruth A. Berman -- D. Kimbrough Oller and Linda Jarmulowicz -- Johanne Paradis -- Mabel L. Rice -- Helen Tager-Flusberg -- Heikki Lyytinen, Jane Erskine, Mikko Aro, and Ulla Richardson. pt I. Basic foundations and theoretical approaches to language development. pt II. Language development in infancy. pt III. Language development in early childhood. pt IV. Language development after early childhood.