From First Words to Grammar

Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms

Elizabeth Bates author Inge Bretherton author Lynn Sebestyen Snyder author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Sep '91

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This book is a comprehensive study of how children pass from their first words to grammar.

This book is a comprehensive study of the passage from first words to grammar in a sample of children large enough to permit systematic analysis of individual differences in style and rate of development. The authors provide a large body of information about first words and early grammatical development in qualitative and quantitative patterns that are useful not only for researchers in the field, but for speech/language pathologists and early childhood educators interested in the assessment of early language. The results support a unified functionalist approach to language development, and have implications for the way we think about the structure and breakdown of language under normal and abnormal conditions.

'[The authors'] challenging and fruitful questioning and their innovation in methodologies will be much more valuable for the future of the field than most of the empty theoretical fabrications that are so common in developmental psycholinguistics.' Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography

ISBN: 9780521425001

Dimensions: 228mm x 151mm x 18mm

Weight: 476g

340 pages