Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development

Messer, David J.; Turner, Geoffrey J.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1993-02-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312084745

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22608-5

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 278