Child Language

A Resource Book for Students
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-28102-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 264 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

Reihe: Routledge English Language Introductions

Child Language:

- provides a comprehensive overview of language acquisition in children

- introduces students to key theories and concerns such as innateness, the role of input and the relation of language to other cognitive functions

- teaches students the skills needed to analyze children’s language

- includes sections on the bilingual child and atypical language development

- provides classic readings by key names in the field, such as Brian MacWhinney, Richard Cromer, Jean Aitchison, and Eve Clark.

The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415281032

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peccei, Jean Stilwell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 D.2. Children’s Mental Representations of Sounds D.3. Naming Things for Children D.4. A Child’s Invention of New Words D.5. Accounting for Growth and Change in Children’s Grammar D.6. Language and Socialization D.7. A Cross-Linguistic Approach to Dyslexia D.8. Bilingual Children’s Use of Code-Switching. References. Glossarial Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Stilwell Peccei is a Visiting Lecturer in the English Language & Linguistics programme at Roehampton University. She is the author of Child Language 2nd Edition (Routledge Language Workbooks series, 1999) and Pragmatics (Routledge Language Workbooks series, 1999) and co-author of Language, Society and Power 2nd Edition (Routledge 2004).