During the last 20 to 25 years there has been an enormous expansion in research on how
normally developing infants and young children acquire language. This research has …

This chapter must begin with a caveat. Although the purposes of this volume are to
investigate the transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication and to ascertain the …

The problem of how the young child learns language has been a major focus of theoretical
and empirical inquiry within disciplines as diverse as psychology, linguistics, and …

Although young children do not typically produce their first words until the 2nd year of life,
the findings reviewed above make it clear that by the end of their 1st year, children know a …

DONNA IA, PhD rj ELIZABETH BATES, PhD accomplishment of childhood before the age of
5, and it is the skill on which most later achieve-ments depend. Because language is the …

This chapter identifies some of the principal issues arising out of the study of parent/infant
interaction and the development of communication in children. Although the focus is on …

This book is about language development in children, looked at from the perspective of
acquisition of communicative competence. The reader will delve into it in the search for …

The development of language is often heralded as the hallmark accomplishment of our
species. Language is traditionally seen as a distinctly human characteristic that separates us …

New developments in the field of child language acquisition are reviewed. Research and
theory are increasingly emphasizing the role of communication and dialogue in the …

Reviewed by DEBORAH KELLER-COHEN, University of Michigan This study of language
development at the one-word stage made a timely appearance when attention in the field …