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Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development provides a comprehensive treatment of the major topics and current concerns in the field; exploring the progress of 21st century research, its precursors, and promising research topics for the future. * Provides comprehensive treatments of the major topics and current concerns in the field of language development * Explores foundational and theoretical approaches * Focuses on the 21st century's research into the areas of brain development, computational skills, bilingualism, education, and cross-cultural comparison * Looks at language development in infancy through early childhood, as well as atypical development * Considers the past work, present research, and promising topics for the future. * Broad coverage makes this an excellent resource for graduate students in a variety of disciplines

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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405171595
• Artikelnr.: 38406922

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