Language acquisition [electronic resource] / edited by Susan Foster-Cohen.
Language learners come in all sizes. Children learn one language; they learn many. Older children and adults add languages. Some children learn language against the odds, faced as they are by developmental difficulties of many kinds. How do learners meet these different language acquisition challeng...
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Word learning and the origins of phonological systems / Marilyn Vihman
- Cracking the language code : processing strategies in first language acquisition / Ann M. Peters
- The inevitability of child directed speech / Matthew Saxton
- Universal grammar approaches to language acquisition / Maria Teresa Guasti
- Second language acquisition / Susan Gass
- Language and the many faces of emotion / Judy S. Reilly
- Complements enable representation of the contents of false beliefs : the evolution of a theory of theory of mind / Jill G. De Villiers and Peter A. de Villiers
- Going beyond semantics : the development of pragmatic enrichment / Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Ira A. Noveck
- The acquisition of phrasal vocabulary / Koenraad Kuiper, Georgie Columbus and Norbert Schmitt
- Language development in simultaneous bilingual children / Natascha Müller
- Universals and cross-linguistic variability in children's discourse / Maya Hickmann
- Trends in research on narrative development / Ruth A. Berman
- Family literacy activities : what is, what ought to be and the role of parents' ideas / Stuart McNaughton, Meaola Amituanai-Toloa and 'Ema Wolfgramm-Foliaki.