Language Experience and Early Language Development

From Input to Uptake

Margaret Harris author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:25th Aug '92

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This paperback is available in another edition too:

Language Experience and Early Language Development cover

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience.

'Harris tackles the seemingly impenetrable question of the role of caretaker speech on language acquisition. In an engaging and accessible style she reviews previous research on this question and addresses the many methodological difficulties that tend to ensue with this line of research.' - Jacqueline S. Johnson in Contemporary Psychology, 1995.

'This is an extremely important contribution to the MIEssays in Developmental PsychologyD series. Written in a style which is lucid and readily accessible to the non-specialist, Harris presents an engaging account of the processes of language development during infancy and early childhood...it will be read with profit by undergraduate and postgraduate students concerned to understand the role of early experience in language development and how it interacts with biological endowment. Research students in particular will find the sections on methodology extremely helpful.' - H. McGurk (Thomas Coram Research Unit, London).

ISBN: 9780863772382

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 249g

158 pages