Full Description
Provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to language development covering all of the major topics in the field, including the major challenges teachers face in today's diverse classrooms KEY TOPICS: A comprehensive, developmental approach to language development that covers the topics of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics.MARKET: Primarily for college students in courses with the same topic in communication disorders, psychology, and education, this bestseller also serves as a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to language development
Contents
Brief Contents1. The Territory2. Describing Language3. Neurological Bases of Speech and Language4. Cognitive, Perceptual and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech5. The Social and Communicative Bases of Early Language and Speech6. Language-Learning and Teaching Processes and Young Children7. First Words and Word Combinations in Toddler Talk8. Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development9. Preschool Development of Language Form10. Early School-Age Language Development11. School-Age Literacy Development12. Adolescent and Adult LanguageAppendix A: American English Speech Sounds Appendix B: Major Racial and Ethnic Dialects of American English Appendix C: Development Summary Appendix D: Computing MLU Appendix E: Background GrammarGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
