Research Methods in Child Language (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide
Redaktion: Hoff, Erika

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development. * Presents a comprehensive survey of laboratory and naturalistic techniques used in the study of different domains of language, age ranges, and populations, and explains the questions addressed by each technique * Presents new research methods, such as the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study the activity of the brain * Expands on more traditional research methods such as collection, transcription, and coding of speech samples that have been transformed by new hardware and software

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444344011
• Artikelnr.: 38307246

Autorenporträt

Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Language Development, 4th Edition (2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Section 1: Studying infants
and others using nonverbal methods Section 2: Assessing language knowledge
and processes in children who talk Section 3: Capturing children's language
experience and language production Section 4: Studying Multiple Languages
and Special Populations