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OverviewFor college students in courses with the same topic in communication disorders, psychology, and education. A best-selling, comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to language development. This best-selling introduction to language development text offers a cohesive, easy-to-understand overview of all aspects of the subject, from syntax, morphology, and semantics, to phonology and pragmatics. Each idea and concept is explained in a way that is clear to even beginning students and then reinforced with outstanding pedagogical aids such as discussion questions, chapter objectives, reflections, and main point boxed features. The book looks at how children learn to communicate in general and in English specifically, while emphasising individual patterns of communication development. The 9th Edition continues the distribution of bilingual and dialectal development throughout the text; expands the discussion of children from lower-SES families, including those living in homeless shelters; makes substantial improvements in the organisation and clarity of Chapter 4 on cognition and its relationship to speech and language; consolidates information on Theory of Mind in one chapter; improves readability throughout with more thorough explanations, simplification of terms, and increased use of headings and bullets; weeds out redundancies and asides to help streamline the reading; provides more child language examples throughout; and thoroughly updates the research, including the addition of several hundred new references. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert OwensPublisher: Pearson Education Limited Imprint: Pearson Education Limited Edition: 9th edition Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.860kg ISBN: 9781292104423ISBN 10: 1292104422 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 30 October 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsThe Territory Describing Language Neurological Bases of Speech and Language Cognitive, Perceptual and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech The Social and Communicative Bases of Early Language and Speech Language-Learning and Teaching Processes and Young Children First Words and Word Combinations in Toddler Talk Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development Preschool Development of Language Form Early School-Age Language Development School-Age Literacy Development Adolescent and Adult Language Appendix A: American English Speech Sounds Appendix B: Major Racial and Ethnic Dialects of American English Appendix C: Development Summary Appendix D: Computing MLU Appendix E: Background Grammar Glossary References Author Index Subject IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |