ERIKA HOFF

Blackwell Handbook of Language Development

Herausgeber: Hoff, Erika; Shatz, Marilyn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development provides a comprehensive treatment of the major topics and current concerns in the field. Covering new academic terrain in areas such as brain development, computational skills, bilingualism, education, and cross-linguistic comparisons, this volume explores the progress of twenty-first century research in language development while considering its precursors and looking towards promising research topics for the future. This balanced and accessible volume collects the work of a generation of researchers who are enlarging the field to consider internal and external bases for language development and to address a wide range of language development outcomes. Presenting recent research in the traditional topics of language development from infancy through early childhood, this book also expands upon those topics to include work on older children, exploring how linguistic knowledge develops with experiences such as learning a second language and acquiring writing skills. The expansive coverage of foundational and emerging topics makes this book an excellent resource for researchers, instructors, and graduate students in developmental psychology, linguistics, and education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 182mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1048g
• ISBN-13: 9781405132534
• ISBN-10: 1405132531
• Artikelnr.: 22051614

Autorenporträt

Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is author of Language Development (2005). Marilyn Shatz is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan. She is author of A Toddler's Life (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors.

Preface.

1. On the Development of the Field of Language Development:Marilyn Shatz (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

Part I: Basic Foundations and Theoretical Approaches toLanguage Development:.

Introduction.

2. The Neurodevelopmental Bases of Language: Valerie L. Shafer(City University of New York) and Karen Garrido-Nag (CityUniversity of New York).

3. Formal and Computational Constraints on Language Development:Helen Goodluck (University of York).

4. Domain-General Learning Capacities: Jenny R. Saffran(University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Erik D. Thiessen (CarnegieMellon University).

5. How Inherently Social is Language?: Dare Baldwin (Universityof Oregon, Eugene) and Meredith Meyer (University of Oregon,Eugene).

6. Input and the Acquisition of Language: Three Questions:Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole (University of Wales, Bangor) andErika Hoff (Florida Atlantic University).

7. The Emergence of Language: A Dynamical Systems Account: JuliaL. Evans (San Diego State University).

Part II: Language Development in Infancy:.

Introduction.

8. Experiential Influences on Speech Perception and SpeechProduction in Infancy: Linda Polka (McGill University, Montreal),Susan Rvachew (McGill University, Montreal), and Karen Mattock(McGill University, Montreal).

9. Acquiring Linguistic Structure: LouAnn Gerken (University ofArizona, Tucson).

10. Cognitive Processes in Early Word Learning: DianePoulin-Dubois (Concordia University, Montreal) and Susan A. Graham(University of Calgary).

11. Syntactic Supports for Word Learning: Letitia R. Naigles(University of Connecticut, Storrs) and Lauren D. Swensen(University of Connecticut, Storrs).

Part III: Language Development in Early Childhood:.

Introduction.

12. Phonological Development: Carol Stoel-Gammon (University ofWashington, Seattle) and Anna Vogel Sosa (University of Washington,Seattle).

13. Mechanisms of Word Learning: Gil Diesendruck (Bar-IlanUniversity, Ramat-Gan, Israel).

14. The Abstract Nature of Syntactic Representations:Consequences for a Theory of Learning: Jeffrey Lidz (University ofMaryland, College Park).

15. Conversational Understanding in Young Children: MichaelSiegal (University of Trieste/University of Sheffield) and LucaSurian (University of Trieste).

16. Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Fred Genesee (McGillUniversity, Montreal) and Elena Nicoladis (University of Alberta,Edmonton).

Part IV: Language Development after Early Childhood:.

Introduction.

17. Developing Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use AcrossAdolescence: Ruth A. Berman (Tel Aviv University).

18. Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children in the EarlySchool Years: D. Kimbrough Oller (University of Memphis) and LindaJarmulowicz (University of Memphis).

19. Second Language Acquisition in Childhood: Johanne Paradis(University of Alberta, Edmonton).

Part V: Atypical Language Development:.

Introduction.

20. Children with Specific Language Impairment: Bridging theGenetic and Developmental Perspectives: Mabel L. Rice (Universityof Kansas, Lawrence).

21. Atypical Language Development: Autism and OtherNeurodevelopmental Disorders: Helen Tager-Flusberg (BostonUniversity).

22. Reading and Reading Disorders: Heikki Lyytinen (Universityof Jyväskylä, Finland), Jane Erskine (Niilo MäkiInstitute, Jyväskylä, Finland), Mikko Aro (NiiloMäki Institute, Jyväskylä, Finland), and UllaRichardson (University of Jyväskylä, Finland).

Author Index.

Subject Index

Rezensionen

"Catapulting us full-speed into the twenty-first century, the'Blackwell Handbook of Language Development' offers astunning vista on contemporary knowledge about language developmentin our species. The mystery of the child's linguistic mind is laidbare while thoroughly explaining the important social and cognitivecontexts in which it grows. The edition's eminent editors, Hoff andShatz, offer brilliant insights, theoretical notes, and historicalviews that give depth and urgency to the field's looming modernquestions, and the text's contributors are an internationaltour-de-force whose ingenious research provide a new look on themagic of human language learning. Fascinating accounts of languagedevelopment in infancy, early childhood, later childhood, thebilingual child, and atypical language development are included.This must-read text will interest scholars, students, andprofessionals, alike, and will utterly satisfy all those who haveever marveled at the beauty of language or wondered about how ourmagnificent human mind discovered and learned it."
Laura-Ann Pettito, Dartmouth College

"Hoff and Shatz have gathered an important and lively set of newarticles on child language learning with broad topical coverage,and considerable attention to foundational issues as well as recentempirical findings. Diverse points of view are well represented andexplained. This collection would certainly be my choice as a textfor advanced courses and seminars on language acquisition."
Professor Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania

"The authors ... have risen to the monumentalchallenge of charting language development ... .The booksuccessfully captures the complexities of language developmentacross time."
Canadian Psychology