Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333554937)

The book identifies and assesses the importance of a range of influences on child language acquisition and development, paying particular attention to situational influences. Key issues are highlighted and recent research is succinctly presented. There are five sections: the deployment of speech during early development; linguistic interaction and family background: encoding the situation; multidimentional aspects of language development; and constraints on language development. There are twelve chapters on these themes contributed by leading researchers in this area.

Author: David J. Messer, Geoffrey J. Turner
ISBN-10: 0333554930
ISBN-13: 9780333554937
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/09/1993
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d