Language Development Books

New and Published Books

1. Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2

   Typological and Contextual Perspectives

   Edited by Sven Str”mqvist, Ludo Verhoeven, Sven Stromqvist

   Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Handbook of Orthography and Literacy

   Edited by R. Malatesha Joshi, P.G. Aaron

   Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Children's Language

   Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

   Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

   These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
4. The Development of the Mediated Mind

   Sociocultural Context and Cognitive Development

   Edited by Joan M. Lucariello, Judith A. Hudson, Robyn Fivush, Patricia J. Bauer

   This volume is a festschrift for Katherine Nelson, an NYU professor who was a pioneer in infant perception and memory. The "mediated mind" is a term coined by Dr. Nelson and it refers to how cognitive development is mediated by the sociocultural context, including language and social interaction....

   Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
5. Kids' Slips

   What Young Children's Slips of the Tongue Reveal About Language Development

   By Jeri J. Jaeger

   The study of speech errors, or "slips of the tongue," is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning. However, until Kids' Slips, there...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
6. Language Competence Across Populations

   Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment

   Edited by Yonata Levy, Jeannette C. Schaeffer

   This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal and disordered language capabilities. The...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
7. Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

   Four Cornerstones

   Edited by Anne Cutler

   Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence....

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova, Ludmila A. Marchenkova

   This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it...

   Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Children's Language

   Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

   Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

   These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
10. From Orthography to Pedagogy

    Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky

    Edited by Thomas R. Trabasso, John P. Sabatini, Dominic W. Massaro, Robert Calfee

    From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances...

    Published February 4th 2013 by Psychology Press