Blackwell Handbook of Language Development

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"Catapulting us full-speed into the twenty-first century, the'Blackwell Handbook of Language Development' offers astunning vista on contemporary knowledge about language developmentin our species. The mystery of the child's linguistic mind is laidbare while thoroughly explaining the important social and cognitivecontexts in which it grows. The edition's eminent editors, Hoff andShatz, offer brilliant insights, theoretical notes, and historicalviews that give depth and urgency to the field's looming modernquestions, and the text's contributors are an internationaltour-de-force whose ingenious research provide a new look on themagic of human language learning. Fascinating accounts of languagedevelopment in infancy, early childhood, later childhood, thebilingual child, and atypical language development are included.This must-read text will interest scholars, students, andprofessionals, alike, and will utterly satisfy all those who haveever marveled at the beauty of language or wondered about how ourmagnificent human mind discovered and learned it." Laura-AnnPettito, Dartmouth College "Hoff and Shatz have gathered an important and lively set of newarticles on child language learning with broad topical coverage,and considerable attention to foundational issues as well as recentempirical findings. Diverse points of view are well represented andexplained. This collection would certainly be my choice as a textfor advanced courses and seminars on language acquisition."Professor Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania "The authors ... have risen to the monumentalchallenge of charting language development ... .The booksuccessfully captures the complexities of language developmentacross time." Canadian Psychology"Catapulting us full-speed into the twenty-first century, the'Blackwell Handbook of Language Development' offers astunning vista on contemporary knowledge about language developmentin our species. The mystery of the child's linguistic mind is laidbare while thoroughly explaining the important social and cognitivecontexts in which it grows. The edition's eminent editors, Hoff andShatz, offer brilliant insights, theoretical notes, and historicalviews that give depth and urgency to the field's looming modernquestions, and the text's contributors are an internationaltour-de-force whose ingenious research provide a new look on themagic of human language learning. Fascinating accounts of languagedevelopment in infancy, early childhood, later childhood, thebilingual child, and atypical language development are included.This must-read text will interest scholars, students, andprofessionals, alike, and will utterly satisfy all those who haveever marveled at the beauty of language or wondered about how ourmagnificent human mind discovered and learned it." Laura-AnnPettito, Dartmouth College "Hoff and Shatz have gathered an important and lively set of newarticles on child language learning with broad topical coverage,and considerable attention to foundational issues as well as recentempirical findings. Diverse points of view are well represented andexplained. This collection would certainly be my choice as a textfor advanced courses and seminars on language acquisition."Professor Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania "The authors ... have risen to the monumentalchallenge of charting language development ... .The booksuccessfully captures the complexities of language developmentacross time." Canadian Psychology