Description
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to language development aimed at a wide audience of students from different disciplines such as psychology, behavioural science, linguistics, cognitive science, and speech pathology. It requires only minimal knowledge of psychology, and is intended for undergraduates from the second year of studies onwards.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xv
Chapter 1 What Enables Infants to Acquire Language? 1
Chapter 2 What do Infants Learn Before they Speak their First Word? 19
Chapter 3 How does Social and Cognitive Development Support
Language Development? 43
Chapter 4 How do Children Learn Words? 63
Chapter 5 How do Children Learn to Combine and Modify Words? 89
Chapter 6 What Kind of Language do Children Encounter? 117
Chapter 7 How do Children Learn to Use Language? 141
Chapter 8 How does Language Development Aff ect Cognition? 163
Chapter 9 What is the Role of Literacy in Language Development? 189
Chapter 10 What Causes Language Impairments? 213
Chapter 11 How do Deaf Children Acquire Language? 239
Chapter 12 How does Language Development Aff ect the Brain? 263
Glossary 287
References 303
Name Index 367
Subject Index 379
