Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. The Deployment of Speech During Early Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Relationship of Maternal Speech to Children’s First Words

      • Margaret Harris

      Pages 3-22

   3. Is Early Speech Situational? An Examination of Some Current Theories About the Relation of Early Utterances to the Context

      • Anat Ninio

      Pages 23-39

   4. Affording Social-Cognitive Skills in Young Children: the Overhearing Context

      • Michael A. Forrester

      Pages 40-61

3. Linguistic Interaction and Family Background

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Initial Production of Inflections in Bilingual Children

      • Tove Klausen, Marlene S. Subritzky, Mariko Hayashi

      Pages 65-92

   3. Social Class, Maternal Speech and the Child’s Semantic Orientation

      • Geoffrey J. Turner

      Pages 93-117

4. Situational Influences on Grammar

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Critical Influences on the Acquisition of Verb Transitivity

      • Richard Ingham

      Pages 121-137

   3. Do Young Children Use Definite Expressions for Specific References?

      • Rosemary J. Stevenson, Kerry M. Sims

      Pages 138-155

5. Multidimensional Aspects of Language

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Children’s Comprehension and Production of Locative Expressions

      • Morag L. Donaldson, Katrina Laing

      Pages 159-178

   3. Intonation and Function of Four-year-olds’ Tag Constructions

      • Barbara Lloyd, Roger Goodwin

      Pages 179-194

6. Constraints on Language Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Phonological Processes and Sign Language Development

      • John Clibbens, Margaret Harris

      Pages 197-208

   3. Increasing Metalinguistic Awareness to Assist Phonological Change

      • Janet Howell, Anne Hill, Elizabeth Dean, Daphne Waters

      Pages 209-228

   4. The Nature of the Linguistic and Communication Difficulties of Children with Autism

      • Rita Jordan

      Pages 229-249

7. Back Matter

   Pages 250-278

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The book identifies and assesses the importance of a range of influences on child language acquisition and development, paying particular attention to situational influences. Key issues are highlighted and recent research is succinctly presented. There are five sections: the deployment of speech during early development; linguistic interaction and family background: encoding the situation; multidimentional aspects of language development; and constraints on language development. There are twelve chapters on these themes contributed by leading researchers in this area.

• bibliography
• bilingualism
• communication
• construction
• grammar
• interaction
• intonation
• language
• language acquisition
• language development
• nature
• Orient
• phonological process
• phonology
• semantic

• University of Hertfordshire, UK

  David J. Messer, Geoffrey J. Turner

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