Inge Bretherton, Lynn Snyder, Elizabeth Bates

From First Words to Grammar

Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive study of the passage from first words to grammar in a sample of children large enough to permit systematic analysis of individual differences in style and rate of development. The authors provide a large body of information about first words and early grammatical development in qualitative and quantitative patterns that are useful not only for researchers in the field, but for speech/language pathologists and early childhood educators interested in the assessment of early language. The results support a unified functionalist approach to language development, and have implications for the way we think about the structure and breakdown of language under normal and abnormal conditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521425001
• ISBN-10: 052142500X
• Artikelnr.: 24258809

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Background: 1. Introduction
2. Modules and mechanisms
3. Individual differences and the correlational method
4. Review of the individual differences literature
Part II. Individual Studies
Section 1. Overall Design of Longitudinal Study: 5. Study 1: comprehension and production at 10 and 13 months
6. Study 2: the meaning of mean length of utterance at 20 months
7. Study 3: lexical development and lexical style at 20 months
8. Study 4. single- and multiword comprehension at 20 months
9. Study 5: acquisition of a novel concept at 20 months
10. Study 6: the meaning of mean length of utterance at 28 months
11. Study 7. lexical development and lexical style at 28 months
12. Study 8: morphological productivity at 28 months
13. Study 9: lexical comprehension and the question of intelligence
14. Study 10: grammatical comprehension at 28 months
Part III. A Summary View: 15. Study 11: a factor analytic approach
16. Study 12: social contributions to individual differences
17. Conclusion
References
Index
Subject Index.