About the Book

Table of Contents

A. Introduction: Key concepts in language acquisition

A.1. Approaches to Language Acquisition
A.2. Phonological Development
A.3. Lexical Development
A.4. Morphological Development
A.5. Syntactic Development
A.6. Discourse Development
A.7. Literacy Development
A.8. The Bilingual Child

B. Development: Analyzing children’s language

B.1. A Closer Look at Child Directed Speech
B.2. Learning and Producing the Sounds of Words
B.3. Learning the Meaning of Words
B.4. Learning How to Build Words
B.5. Learning How to Build Sentences
B.6. Acquiring Communicative Competence
B.7. A Closer Look at Spelling
B.8. Using Two Dialects

C. Exploration: Data for investigation

C.1. Research Methods
C.2. Children's Pronunciation Patterns
C.3. Children's Lexicons
C.4. Children as Word-makers
C.5. Building a Grammar
C.6. Children's Conversations
C.7. Children's Writing
C.8. Using More Than One Language

D. Extension: Readings in language acquisition

D.1. Current Perspectives on Language Acquisition, David Messer
D.2. Children's Mental Representations of Sounds, Neil Smith
D.3. Naming Things for Children, Roger Brown
D.4. A Child's Invention of New Words, Judith Becker
D.5. Accounting for Growth and Change in Children's Grammar, Richard Cromer
D.6. Language and Socialization, Jean Gleason
D.7. A Cross-linguistic Approach to Dyslexia, Usha Goswami
D.8. Bilingual Children's Use of Code-switching, J. Normann Jørgensen

References

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