To understand the child's development of spoken language we must come to grips with a
great many things. We must figure out how children develop the emotional, social …

Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications, Second Edition
provides an accessible overview of language development covering the typical course of …

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 …

Infants learn language (s) with apparent ease, and the tools of modern neuroscience are
providing valuable information about the mechanisms that underlie this capacity …

This book examines both classic and current studies that trace the development of human
language from before birth to the early childhood years. By focusing on areas of language …

From the first moment of life, language development occurs in the context of social activities.
This book emphasises how language development interacts with social and cognitive …

An ironic situation is highlighted: The period of infancy, before the child produces speech,
may yield many of the secrets of the process of language acquisition. Language-acquiring …

Research on child language is an interdisciplinary enterprise, uniting the efforts of
psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, educators, neuroscientists, and communication …

The present investigation is an attempt to add to our knowledge of the development of the
language of the child, as it is found in samples of the running conversation of a large number …

Infants learn language (s) with apparent ease, and the tools of modern neuroscience are
providing valuable information about the mechanisms that underlie this capacity …