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E-book: International Handbook of Language Acquisition

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How do children acquire language? How does real life language acquisition differ from results found in controlled environments? And how is modern life challenging established theories? Going far beyond laboratory experiments, the International Handbook of Language Acquisition examines a wide range of topics surrounding language development to shed light on how children acquire language in the real world.

The foremost experts in the field cover a variety of issues, from the underlying cognitive processes and role of language input to development of key language dimensions as well as both typical and atypical language development. Horst and Torkildsen balance a theoretical foundation with data acquired from applied settings to offer a truly comprehensive reference book with an international outlook.

The International Handbook of Language Acquisition is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in language acquisition across developmental psychology, developmental neuropsychology, linguistics, early childhood education, and communication disorders.

List of contributors
x
List of reviewers
xii
Acknowledgments xiv
Preface xv
Janne Von Koss Torkildsen
Jessica S. Horst
SECTION 1 Foundations of language acquisition
1(150)
1 Research on first language acquisition: a brief history
3(17)
Eve V. Clark
2 Neural basis of language acquisition
20(13)
Angela D. Friederici
Jens Brauer
3 The genetics of language acquisition
33(18)
Hayley S. Mountford
Dianne F. Newbury
4 Statistical learning approaches to studying language development
51(25)
Ryan A. Cannistraci
Rodrigo Dal Ben
Ferhat Karaman
Sara Parvanezadeh Esfahani
Jessica F. Hay
5 Computational and robotic models of early language development: a review
76(26)
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
George Kachergis
William Schueller
6 Building the foundations of language: mechanisms of curiosity-driven learning
102(13)
Katherine E. Twomey
Gert Westermann
7 Visual objects as they are encountered by young language learners
115(13)
Hanako Yoshida
Caitlin M. Fausey
8 A role for sleep in understanding language acquisition
128(23)
Rebecca L. Gomez
Katherine Esterline
SECTION 2 Dimensions of language learning
151(170)
9 Speech perception and discrimination: from sounds to words
153(20)
Caroline Junge
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Titia Benders
10 Advances in early speech production: interactions with maturation, perception and learning
173(22)
Marilyn M. Vihman
11 Learning, recognizing, and extending the meanings of words
195(18)
Lynn K. Perry
Jessica S. Horst
12 Learning language from the use of gestures
213(21)
Katharina J. Rohlfing
13 Pragmatic development: learning to use language to communicate
234(27)
Ingrid Lossius Falkum
14 The role of input in syntax and morphology acquisition: evidence from production
261(24)
Amanda Owen Van Home
15 Learning language is learning typology: acquisition of argument structure and relative clauses in typologically diverse languages
285(15)
Deniz Ozkan
Berna A. Uzundag
Aylin C. Kiintay
16 Language development in simultaneous bilinguals: the early years
300(21)
Fred Genesee
SECTION 3 Individual differences in language acquisition
321(104)
17 Individual differences in language acquisition
323(18)
Courtenay F. Norbury
18 Developmental language disorder
341(21)
J. Bruce Tomblin
19 Speech sound disorders in children
362(25)
Sharynne McLeod
Sarah Masso
20 Language abilities and language growth in children with hearing loss
387(17)
Teresa Y. C. Ching
Linda Cupples
Vicky W. Zhang
21 Language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder
404(21)
Calum Hartley
SECTION 4 Language acquisition in everyday situations
425(114)
22 Young children's word learning through overhearing: next steps
427(15)
Nameera Akhtar
Jackson Tolins
Jean E. Fox Tree
23 Learning language in the context of play
442(20)
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Jacob Schatz
24 Learning language from books
462(23)
Elaine Reese
25 Using digital media to support language learning in early childhood
485(19)
Gabrielle Strouse
26 The co-development of vocabulary and reading comprehension
504(16)
Richard K. Wagner
Jamie M. Quinn
27 The early steps in becoming a writer: enabling participation in a literate world
520(19)
Rui A. Alves
Glossary 539(14)
Index 553
Jessica S. Horst is a Reader in Developmental Psychology at the University of Sussex.

Janne von Koss Torkildsen is Professor in speech-language pathology at the University of Oslo.