Children's Language
Volume 7
Published on 1. July 1990
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-8058-0523-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents current research findings on vital issues in language development compiled by an international group of leading researchers. The data are drawn from studies of the acquisition of Swedish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Themes emphasized in all the chapters include the importance of the social context of acquisition, the existence of interconnections among various domains of language development, and the impossibility of understanding acquisition using a simple theory or a single methodological approach.
Reviews / Votes
"They have done a great service in presenting to an international audience a diverse array of approaches and data from an international group of authors."-Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
"Becker's chapter on the acquisition of pragmatic competence provides an excellent and succinct introduction to the research in this field....there is a very welcome diversity in the type of problems investigated....Conti-Ramsden and Snow have done an excellent job....this book contains reports of cutting-edge research that will be of great interest to those interested in language use and development during the preschool years....Much is exploratory and opens new domains of inquiry that are likely to inspire further research by investigators who read these chapters."
-Contemporary Psychology
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8058-0523-9 (9780805805239)
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Persons
Conti-Ramsden, Gina; Snow, Catherine E.
Content
Contents: G. Conti-Ramsden, C.E. Snow, Children's Language: How It Develops and How It Is Used. J.A. Becker, Processes in the Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence. C. Liberg, "I Am Not Guessing!": Children's Achievement of Early Literacy. M. Przetacznik-Gierowska, M. Ligeza, Cognitive and Interpersonal Functions of Children's Questions. M. Mikes, Some Issues of Lexical Development in Early Bi- and Tri-Linguals. N. Budwig, A Functional Approach to the Acquisition of Personal Pronouns. E.M. Scarpa, Intonation and Dialogue Processes in Early Speech. M.B. Rice, Preschoolers' QUIL: Quick Incidental Learning of Words. Z. Reger, Mothers' Speech in Different Social Groups in Hungary. J.W. Astington, Metapragmatics: Children's Conception of Promising. M.S. Barbieri, F. Colavita, N. Scheuer, The Beginning of the Explaining Capacity. G.W. Shugar, G. Kmita, The Pragmatics of Collaboration: Participant Structure and the Structure of Participation. K. Reeder, Text or Context? The Influence of Early Literate Experience Upon Pre-school Children's Speech Act Comprehension.