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Children's Language

Volume 7

• Edited by Gina Conti-Ramsden, Catherine E. Snow

• Price: $99.95
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 352
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 1st July 1990
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-0523-9

About the Book

This volume presents current research findings on vital issues in language development compiled by an international group of leading researchers. The data are drawn from studies of the acquisition of Swedish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Themes emphasized in all the chapters include the importance of the social context of acquisition, the existence of interconnections among various domains of language development, and the impossibility of understanding acquisition using a simple theory or a single methodological approach.

Table of Contents

Contents: G. Conti-Ramsden, C.E. Snow, Children's Language: How It Develops and How It Is Used. J.A. Becker, Processes in the Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence. C. Liberg, "I Am Not Guessing!": Children's Achievement of Early Literacy. M. Przetacznik-Gierowska, M. Ligeza, Cognitive and Interpersonal Functions of Children's Questions. M. Mikes, Some Issues of Lexical Development in Early Bi- and Tri-Linguals. N. Budwig, A Functional Approach to the Acquisition of Personal Pronouns. E.M. Scarpa, Intonation and Dialogue Processes in Early Speech. M.B. Rice, Preschoolers' QUIL: Quick Incidental Learning of Words. Z. Reger, Mothers' Speech in Different Social Groups in Hungary. J.W. Astington, Metapragmatics: Children's Conception of Promising. M.S. Barbieri, F. Colavita, N. Scheuer, The Beginning of the Explaining Capacity. G.W. Shugar, G. Kmita, The Pragmatics of Collaboration: Participant Structure and the Structure of Participation. K. Reeder, Text or Context? The Influence of Early Literate Experience Upon Pre-school Children's Speech Act Comprehension.