Child language :

Peccei, Jean Stilwell.

Child language : a resource book for students / Jean Stilwell Peccei. - London ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2006. - viii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge English language introductions . - Routledge English language introductions series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-189) and index.

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

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