Blackwell Handbook of Language Development Book

List of Contributors     viii
Preface     xi
On the Development of the Field of Language Development   Marilyn Shatz     1
Basic Foundations and Theoretical Approaches to Language Development     17
Introduction     19
The Neurodevelopmental Bases of Language   Valerie L. Shafer   Karen Garrido-Nag     21
Formal and Computational Constraints on Language Development   Helen Goodluck     46
Domain-General Learning Capacities   Jenny R. Saffran   Erik D. Thiessen     68
How Inherently Social is Language?   Dare Baldwin   Meredith Meyer     87
Input and the Acquisition of Language: Three Questions   Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole   Erika Hoff     107
The Emergence of Language: A Dynamical Systems Account   Julia L. Evans     128
Language Development in Infancy     149
Introduction     151
Experiential Influences on Speech Perception and Speech Production in Infancy   Linda Polka   Susan Rvachew   Karen Mattock     153
Acquiring Linguistic Structure   LouAnn Gerken     173
Cognitive Processes in Early Word Learning   Diane Poulin-Dubois   Susan A. Graham     191
Syntactic Supports for Word Learning   Letitia R. Naigles   Lauren D. Swensen     212
Language Development in Early Childhood     233
Introduction     235
Phonological Development   Carol Stoel-Gammon   Anna Vogel Sosa     238
Mechanisms of Word Learning   Gil Diesendruck     257
The Abstract Nature of Syntactic Representations: Consequences for a Theory of Learning   Jeffrey Lidz     277
Conversational Understanding in Young Children   Michael Siegal   Luca Surian     304
Bilingual First Language Acquisition   Fred Genesee   Elena Nicoladis     324
Language Development after Early Childhood     343
Introduction     345
Developing Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use Across Adolescence   Ruth A. Berman     347
Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children in the Early School Years   D. Kimbrough Oller   Linda Jarmulowicz     368
Second Language Acquisition in Childhood   Johanne Paradis     387
Atypical Language Development     407
Introduction     409
Children with Specific Language Impairment: Bridging the Genetic and Developmental Perspectives   Mabel L. Rice     411
Atypical Language Development: Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders   Helen Tager-Flusberg     432
Reading and Reading Disorders   Heikki Lyytinen   Jane Erskine   Mikko Aro   Ulla Richardson     454
Author Index     475
Subject Index     482