An edition of How language comes to children (1999)

How language comes to children

from birth to two years

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An edition of How language comes to children (1999)

How language comes to children

from birth to two years

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In this book, psycholinguist Benedicte de Boysson-Bardies presents a broad picture of language development, from fetal development to the toddler years, and examines a wide range of puzzling questions: How do newborns recognize elements of speech? How do they distinguish them from nonspeech sounds? How do they organize and analyze them? How do they ultimately come to understand and reproduce these sounds? Finally, how does the ability to communicate through language emerge in children?

Boysson-Bardies also addresses questions of particular interest to parents, such as whether one should speak to children in a special way to facilitate language learning and whether there is cause to worry when a twenty-month-old child does not yet speak. Although the author provides a clear summary of the current state of language acquisition theory, the special appeal of the book lies in her research and "dialogue" with her many young subjects.

Publish Date
Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
274

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-257) and index.
"A Bradford book."

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
401/.93
Library of Congress
P118 .B65413 1999, P118.B65413 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 274 p. ;
Number of pages
274

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL358027M
ISBN 10
0262024535
LCCN
98017956
OCLC/WorldCat
38853989
LibraryThing
770197
Goodreads
1004441

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1874811W

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