Child Language

✍ Scribed by Michelle Aldridge

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters, Ltd.
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Comprises 17 papers presented at the Child Language Seminar, Bangor 1994, with contributions in areas as diverse as bilingual development, phonological disorders, sign language development, and the language of Down's syndrome children.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright © 1996......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
1 Child Language Development: A Connectionist Simulation of the Evolving Concept Memory......Page 10
2 Representation Issues in Child Language Corpora......Page 24
3 Arbitrary and Topographic Space in Sign Language Development......Page 37
4 Do Cross-Sentential Cues to Phrase Structure Facilitate the Acquisition of Syntax?......Page 49
5 Preverbal Communication in Young Children with Down's Syndrome: The Use of Pointing and Other Gestures......Page 61
6 Negative Feedback in Language Addressed to Hearing-impaired Children......Page 74
7 Negation and Truncated Structures......Page 81
8 Verb Complementation in Language Impaired School Age Children......Page 93
9 Acquisition of Negative Polarity Items......Page 101
10 What Factors Predict a Child's Language in a Bilingual Environment?......Page 112
11 The Nature of Children's Initial Clauses......Page 121
12 Children's Attributions of Speakers' Pragmatic Intentions......Page 158
13 The Effectiveness of Therapy for Child Phonological Disorder: The Metaphon Approach......Page 174
14 Functional Category Cueing......Page 185
15 Language Modularity and Grammatical Specific Language Impairment in Children......Page 197
16 Talking about Reading Strategies with Poor Readers: A Way of Increasing Student Control of the Learning Situation......Page 211
17 The Acquisition of English by a Japanese-speaking Child: The Sibilant-sound Attachment as an Influence of Japanese......Page 221