Table of Contents:
  • pt I. Basic foundations and theoretical approaches to language development. The neurodevelopmental bases of language / Valerie L. Shafer and Karen Garrido-Nag
  • Formal and computational constraints on language development / Helen Goodluck
  • Domain-general learning capacities / Jenny R. Saffran and Erik D. Thiessen
  • How inherently social is language? / Dare Baldwin and Meredith Meyer
  • Input and the acquisition of languag : three questions / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole and Erika Hoff
  • The emergence of languag : a dynamical systems account / Julia L. Evans
  • pt II. Language development in infancy. Experiential influences on speech perception and speech production in infancy / Linda Polka, Susan Rvachew, and Karen Mattock
  • Acquiring linguistic structure / LouAnn Gerken
  • Cognitive processes in early word learning / Diane Poulin-Dubois and Susan A. Graham
  • Syntactic supports for word learning / Letitia R. Naigles and Lauren D. Swensen
  • pt III. Language development in early childhood. Phonological development / Carol Stoel-Gammon and Anna Vogel Sosa
  • Mechanisms of word learning / Gil Diesendruck
  • The abstract nature of syntactic representation : consequences for a theory of learning / Jeffrey Lidz
  • Conversational understanding in young children / Michael Siegal and Luca Surian
  • Bilingual first language acquisition / Fred Genesee and Elena Nicoladis
  • pt IV. Language development after early childhood. Developing linguistic knowledge and language use across adolescence / Ruth A. Berman
  • Language and literacy in bilingual children in the early school years / D. Kimbrough Oller and Linda Jarmulowicz
  • Second language acquisition in childhood / Johanne Paradis
  • pt V. Atypical language development. Children with specific language impairmen : bridging the genetic and developmental perspectives / Mabel L. Rice
  • Atypical language developmen : autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders / Helen Tager-Flusberg
  • Reading and reading disorders / Heikki Lyytinen, Jane Erskine, Mikko Aro, and Ulla Richardson.
  • Basic foundations and theoretical approaches to language development
  • Language development in infancy
  • Language development in early childhood
  • Language development after early childhood
  • Atypical language development.