Progressing gradually from babbling to meaningful sentences is something most babies do
naturally. But why do they? John L. Locke's answer constitutes a fascinating journey along …

This thesis deals with first language and a degree to which children's social environment
influences its successful acquisition. It suggests that children neglected by their caregivers at …

To paraphrase some of the introductory comments of Virginia Marchman in ''Models of
Language Development: An ''Emergentist 'Perspective,''a remarkable process occurs in a …

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. viii+ 400. This volume is concerned with
the way babies communicate with other people, particularly their mothers, before they begin …

Discusses child language data as they relate to the assessment of intervention goals and
strategies for hearing-impaired infants and preschool children. The author contends that …

Recently both psychologists and linguists have emphasized the need to provide a
framework for an analysis of the communicative skills a child acquires in the early years of …

The Transition From Prelinguistic To Linguistic Communication Page 1 Page 2 THE
TRANSITION FROM PRELINGUISTIC TO LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION Page 3 THE …

This book is intended for anyone with an interest in how children acquire language and in
how language develops over the life span. It is divided into eleven chapters, each written by …

Publisher Summary By acquiring the words and grammars of their native languages,
children learns how to communicate information, needs, and feelings more effectively …

Language is amazingly useful. We use it to talk about things that are not present, to
communicate abstract concepts and thoughts in our heads, and even (through writing) to …