The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

Description

The most authoritative resource for students and researchers, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language has been thoroughly updated and extended. Enhancements include new chapters on the acquisition of words, processing deficits in children with specific language impairments, and language in children with Williams syndrome, new authors for the bilingualism and autism chapters, a refocused discourse chapter on written narratives, and a new section on reading and reading disorders, cementing the handbook's position as the best study of the subject available. In a wide-ranging survey, language development is traced from prelinguistic infancy to adolescence in typical and atypical contexts; the material is intuitively grouped into six thematic sections, enabling readers to easily find specific in-depth information. With topics as varied as statistical learning, bilingualism, and the neurobiology of reading disorders, this multidisciplinary Handbook is an essential reference for students and researchers in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, speech pathology, education and anthropology.

Edith L. Bavin is Professor in the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe University, Australia. Letitia R. Naigles is Professor in Psychology at the University of Connecticut.

' this handbook gives a thorough picture of the theoretical debates, findings and methodologies of the field of language acquisition.' Journal of Child Language 'It is rare to see such a broad and representative range of perspectives covered in a single volume an excellent resource for researchers as well as those hoping to learn more about child language acquisition ' Janet F. Werker, University of British Columbia Reviews of the hardback: ' a standard work it succeeds magnificently in charting the advances made in theory, methodology and application over the last four decades.' Paul Fletcher, University College Cork