Language development : an introduction

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owens, Robert E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts : Pearson , c2008
Edition:7th ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The territory
  • 2. Describing language
  • 3. Neurological bases of speech and language
  • 4. Cognitive, perceptual, and motor bases of early language and speech
  • 5. The social and communicative bases of early language and speech
  • 6. Language-learning snd teaching processes and young children
  • 7. A first language: toddler talk
  • 8. Preschool pragmatic and semantic development
  • 9. Preschool development of language form
  • 10. Early school-age language development
  • 11. School-age literacy development
  • 12. Adolescent and adult language
  • 13. Language differences:bidialectism and bilingualism
  • 14. Language research and analysis