Language Development: An Introduction (7th Edition)
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Book Details
Author(s)
Robert E. Owens
Publisher
Allyn & Bacon
ISBN / ASIN
0205525563
ISBN-13
9780205525560
Sales Rank
#625,479
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
This best-selling book addresses language variations among children, new advances in linguistics and neurology, and the importance of literacy, as well the impact of these issues on our understanding of individual development. In addition, this clearly written and comprehensive book features sections on culturally and linguistically diverse children to reflect the realities of schools in the United States. Developed within a practical framework, Language Development: An Introduction examines every aspect of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics.
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New features to this edition include:
- A new chapter (Ch. 11) on School-Age Literacy Development.
- Updates to the chapter on Cognitive, Perceptual, and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech (Ch. 4) that include the latest in brain imaging information to convey links between anatomy, physiology, cognition, and language, as well as the roles these links play in the development of language abnormalities.
- Updated Companion Website that now includes extensive audio examples of child language.
