New Directions In Language Development And Disorders

Research into child language development is being conducted more extensively, by more people, and in more countries throughout the world than at any point in the past. We now know more than we ever did before about the linguistic, cognitive, neurobio­ logical, and social capacities that children bri...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Perkins, Michael (Editor), Howard, Sara (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 24. Cohesion and Coherence Anomalies and Their Effects on Children’s Referent Introduction in Narrative Retell
  • 25. The Cognitive Determinants of Literacy Skills in a Regular Orthography
  • 26. Social Class Does Not Predict Reading Success, But Language and Metalinguistic Skills Do
  • 27. Do Children With Literacy Difficulties Have Non-Native-Like CVC Perception?
  • Contributors
  • 13. Argument Structure Preferences in Pre-School and School-Age Children
  • 14. Argument Structure Alternation in French Children’s Speech
  • 15. Lexically Specified Patterns in Early Verbal Morphology in Spanish
  • 16. Infants of 24-30 Months Understand Verb Frames
  • 17. Morphological Future in Italian Children
  • 18. Cross-Linguistic Developmental Evidence of Implicit Causality in Visual Perception and Cognition Verbs
  • 19. What They Hear Is What You Get? Infinitives and Modality in Child Language and Child-Directed Speech
  • 20. An Experimental and Computational Exploration of Developmental Patterns in Lexical Access and Representation
  • 21. Learning to Produce Three-Syllable Words: A Longitudinal Study of Finnish Twins
  • 22. The Acquisition of the Systematic Use of Pitch By German/English Bilingual Children: Evidence for Two Separate Phonological Systems
  • 23. Acquisition of Sentence-Final Particles in Japanese
  • 1. Theories of Language Learning and Children with Specific Language Impairment
  • 2. The Relevance of Recent Research on SLI to Our Understanding of Normal Language Development
  • 3. Time Parsing, Normal Language Acquisition, and Language-Related Developmental Disorders
  • 4. How Optional is “Optional” in the Extended Optional Infinitive Stage?
  • 5. Derivational Morphology in SLI Children: Structure and Semantics of Hebrew Nouns
  • 6. Speech Monitoring in Retarded Children: Evidence for Metalinguistic Competencies
  • 7. Gesture Use by Two Children with Tracheostomy: Getting Ready to Use Words
  • 8. Three Hypotheses on Early Grammatical Development
  • 9. Could a Chomskyan Child Learn Polish? The Logical Argument for Language Learning
  • 10. On the Acquisition of Pronominal Reference in Child—Greek
  • 11. The Emergence of Periphrastic Questions in Child—French
  • 12. The Role of Performance Limitations in the Acquisition of “Mixed” Verb-Argument Structure at Stage I