Language development : an introduction /

There is no single way in which children learn to communicate. Each child follows an individual developmental pattern just as you did. Still, it is possible to describe a pattern of general communication development and of English specifically. This text attempts such descriptions and generalization...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owens, Robert E., Jr., 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Pearson Education, [2020].
Edition:Tenth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The territory
  • Describing language
  • Neurological bases of speech and language
  • Cognitive, perceptual, and motor bases of early language and speech
  • The social and communicative bases of early language and speech
  • Language-learning and teaching processes and young children
  • First words and word combinations in toddler talk
  • Preschool pragmatic and semantic development
  • Preschool development of language form
  • Early school-age language development
  • School-age literacy development
  • Adolescent and adult language.