
Child Language
Michelle Aldridge(Editor)
Multilingual Matters (Publisher)
Published on 18. January 1996
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-85359-316-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book comprises seventeen of the papers presented at the Child Language Seminar, University of Wales, Bangor 1994. The aim of the conference was to further understanding of all areas of children's language development and, accordingly, the discussions here are diverse while contributing to this goal. Professor Andrew Radford, University of Essex, was a guest speaker and his paper 'The Nature of Children's Initial Clauses' is in this collection. Other papers give an international perspective to current developments in child language research with contributions from British Columbia, Geneva, Italy and The Netherlands accompanying those from Britain. Papers fall into broad categories such as bilingualism, comprehension, computer modelling of language acquisition, exceptional language and literacy, language disorders, phonological development, syntactic development and sign language. The book will be of interest to anyone with experience in child language development. There is much to offer here for postgraduates and academics concerned with theoretical aspects of language acquisition, but equally, those working with practitioners such as child psychologists, paediatricians, speech therapists and teachers will also benefit from these discussions.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-316-1 (9781853593161)
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Content
Michelle Aldridge: Introduction
1. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Khurshid Ahmad: Child Language Development: A Connectionist Simulation of the Evolving Concept Memory
2. Khurshid Ahmad and John Wright: Representation Issues in Child Language Corpora
3. John Clibbens and Kenny Coventry: Arbitrary and Topographic Space in Sign Language Development
4. Penny Fowler, John Clibbens and Stephen E Newstead: Do Cross-Sentential Cues to Phrase Structure Facilitate the Acquisition of Syntax?
5. Fabia Franco and Jennifer Wishart: Preverbal Communication in Young Children with Down's Syndrome: The Use of Pointing and Other Gestures
6. Clare Gallaway and Margaret Johnston: Negative Feedback in Language Address to Hearing-Impaired Children
7. Cornelia Hamann: Negation and Truncated Structures
8. Gabrielle King: Verb Complementation in Language Impaired School Age Children
9. Charlotte Koster and Sjoukje ven der Wal: Acquisition of Negative Polarity Items
10. Jean Lyon: What Factors Predict a Child's Language in a Bilingual Environment?
11. Andrew Radford: The Nature of Children's Initial Clauses
12. Kenneth Reeder: Children's Attributions of Speakers' Pragmatic Intentions
13. Jennifer Reid, Morag L. Donaldson, Janet Howell, Elizabeth C. Dean and Robert Grieve: The Effectiveness of Therapy for Child Phonological Disorder
14. Milton Taylor: Functional Category Cueing
15. Heather K. J. van der Lely: Language Modularity and Grammatical Specific Language Impairment in Children
16. Julie Wait: Talking about Reading Strategies with Poor Readers: A Way of Increasing Student Control of the Learning Situation
17. Asako Yamada-Yamamoto: The Acquisition of English by a Japanese-speaking Child
1. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Khurshid Ahmad: Child Language Development: A Connectionist Simulation of the Evolving Concept Memory
2. Khurshid Ahmad and John Wright: Representation Issues in Child Language Corpora
3. John Clibbens and Kenny Coventry: Arbitrary and Topographic Space in Sign Language Development
4. Penny Fowler, John Clibbens and Stephen E Newstead: Do Cross-Sentential Cues to Phrase Structure Facilitate the Acquisition of Syntax?
5. Fabia Franco and Jennifer Wishart: Preverbal Communication in Young Children with Down's Syndrome: The Use of Pointing and Other Gestures
6. Clare Gallaway and Margaret Johnston: Negative Feedback in Language Address to Hearing-Impaired Children
7. Cornelia Hamann: Negation and Truncated Structures
8. Gabrielle King: Verb Complementation in Language Impaired School Age Children
9. Charlotte Koster and Sjoukje ven der Wal: Acquisition of Negative Polarity Items
10. Jean Lyon: What Factors Predict a Child's Language in a Bilingual Environment?
11. Andrew Radford: The Nature of Children's Initial Clauses
12. Kenneth Reeder: Children's Attributions of Speakers' Pragmatic Intentions
13. Jennifer Reid, Morag L. Donaldson, Janet Howell, Elizabeth C. Dean and Robert Grieve: The Effectiveness of Therapy for Child Phonological Disorder
14. Milton Taylor: Functional Category Cueing
15. Heather K. J. van der Lely: Language Modularity and Grammatical Specific Language Impairment in Children
16. Julie Wait: Talking about Reading Strategies with Poor Readers: A Way of Increasing Student Control of the Learning Situation
17. Asako Yamada-Yamamoto: The Acquisition of English by a Japanese-speaking Child