1st Edition

Children's Language Volume 4

Edited By K. E. Nelson Copyright 1983
496 Pages
by Psychology Press

496 Pages
by Psychology Press

First published in 1983. This series, Children’s Language, reflects the conviction that extensive work on entirely new fronts along with a great deal of reinterpretation of old-front data will be necessary before any persuasive and truly orderly account of language. For all volumes in the series there is a common scheme of operation with two tactics. First, to give authors sufficient planning time... Read more
Preface 1. Talking About the There and Then: The Emergence of Displaced Reference in Parent-Child Discourse 2. Saying It Again: The Role of Expanded and Deferred Imitations in Language Acquisition 3. Names, Gestures, and Objects: Symbolization in Infancy and Aphasia 4. Perceptual Constraints on the Use of Language by Young Children 5. Getting Others to Do What You Want Them to Do: Development of Children’s Requestive Strategies 6. Mother-Child Language in the Natural Environment 7. The Role of Play in Phonological Development 8. Cognitive Aspects of Phonological Development: Model, Evidence, and Issues 9. Language Acquisition in a Deaf Child of Deaf Parents: Speech, Sign Variations, and Print Variations 10. What Do You Do if You Can’t Tell the Whole Story? The Development of Summarization Skills 11. Developmental Differences in Schemata for Story Comprehension 12. Developmental Language Studies in the Neuropsychiatric Disorders of Childhood

Biography

Keith .E. Nelson The Pennsylvania State University