From First Words to Grammar
Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms
Published on 27. September 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-0-521-42500-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a comprehensive study of the passage from first words to grammar in a sample of children large enough to permit systematic analysis of individual differences in style and rate of development. The authors provide a large body of information about first words and early grammatical development in qualitative and quantitative patterns that are useful not only for researchers in the field, but for speech/language pathologists and early childhood educators interested in the assessment of early language. The results support a unified functionalist approach to language development, and have implications for the way we think about the structure and breakdown of language under normal and abnormal conditions.
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'[The authors'] challenging and fruitful questioning and their innovation in methodologies will be much more valuable for the future of the field than most of the empty theoretical fabrications that are so common in developmental psycholinguistics.' Child Development Abstracts and BibliographyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-42500-1 (9780521425001)
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Elizabeth Bates | Inge Bretherton | Lynn Sebestyen Snyder
From First Words to Grammar
Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms
Book
04/1988
Cambridge University Press
€55.71
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Previous edition
Elizabeth Bates | Inge Bretherton | Lynn Sebestyen Snyder
From First Words to Grammar
Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms
Book
04/1988
Cambridge University Press
€55.71
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Content
Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. Modules and mechanisms; 3. Individual differences and the correlational method; 4. Review of the individual differences literature; Part II. Individual Studies; Section 1. Overall Design of Longitudinal Study: 5. Study 1: comprehension and production at 10 and 13 months; 6. Study 2: the meaning of mean length of utterance at 20 months; 7. Study 3: lexical development and lexical style at 20 months; 8. Study 4. single- and multiword comprehension at 20 months; 9. Study 5: acquisition of a novel concept at 20 months; 10. Study 6: the meaning of mean length of utterance at 28 months; 11. Study 7. lexical development and lexical style at 28 months; 12. Study 8: morphological productivity at 28 months; 13. Study 9: lexical comprehension and the question of intelligence; 14. Study 10: grammatical comprehension at 28 months; Part III. A Summary View: 15. Study 11: a factor analytic approach; 16. Study 12: social contributions to individual differences; 17. Conclusion; References; Index; Subject Index.