Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development - Hardcover

Messer, David J.; Turner, Geoffrey J.

 
9780333554937: Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development

Synopsis

The book identifies and assesses the importance of a range of influences on child language acquisition and development, paying particular attention to situational influences. Key issues are highlighted and recent research is succinctly presented. There are five sections: the deployment of speech during early development; linguistic interaction and family background: encoding the situation; multidimentional aspects of language development; and constraints on language development. There are twelve chapters on these themes contributed by leading researchers in this area.

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