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Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development

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  • © 1993

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  1. David J. Messer

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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  2. Geoffrey J. Turner

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  3. Linguistic Interaction and Family Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Initial Production of Inflections in Bilingual Children

      • Tove Klausen, Marlene S. Subritzky, Mariko Hayashi
      Pages 65-92

    3. Social Class, Maternal Speech and the Child’s Semantic Orientation

      • Geoffrey J. Turner
      Pages 93-117

  4. Situational Influences on Grammar

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Critical Influences on the Acquisition of Verb Transitivity

      • Richard Ingham
      Pages 121-137

    3. Do Young Children Use Definite Expressions for Specific References?

      • Rosemary J. Stevenson, Kerry M. Sims
      Pages 138-155

  5. Multidimensional Aspects of Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Children’s Comprehension and Production of Locative Expressions

      • Morag L. Donaldson, Katrina Laing
      Pages 159-178

    3. Intonation and Function of Four-year-olds’ Tag Constructions

      • Barbara Lloyd, Roger Goodwin
      Pages 179-194

  6. Constraints on Language Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Phonological Processes and Sign Language Development

      • John Clibbens, Margaret Harris
      Pages 197-208

    3. Increasing Metalinguistic Awareness to Assist Phonological Change

      • Janet Howell, Anne Hill, Elizabeth Dean, Daphne Waters
      Pages 209-228

    4. The Nature of the Linguistic and Communication Difficulties of Children with Autism

      • Rita Jordan
      Pages 229-249

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 250-278
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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.

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  • University of Hertfordshire, UK

    David J. Messer, Geoffrey J. Turner

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