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  1. 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 November 1st 2004 by Psychology Press

  2. Beyond Nature-Nurture

    Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates

    Edited by Michael Tomasello, Dan Isaac Slobin

    Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature;...

    Published August 22nd 2004 by Psychology Press

  3. 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 April 7th 2004 by Psychology Press

  4. Children's Literacy Development

    By Catherine McBride-Chang

    Series: International Texts in Developmental Psychology

    Children's literacy development forms the foundation for lifelong learning. Acquisition of reading and writing skills involves crucial aspects of both cognitive and psychosocial development. This book critically analyses research and theory on literacy acquisition from an ecological...

    Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge

  5. The Child Language Reader

    Edited by Kate Trott, Sushie Dobbinson, Patrick Griffiths

    The Child Language Reader provides an introduction to the most important research in child language acquisition and development. Including extensive editorial introductions, which explain key background, assumptions and terminology, and organized into thematic sections, it brings the reader into...

    Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge

  6. 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 November 30th 2003 by Psychology Press

  7. The Reading Decision Test

    Word Decision 1

    By Alan Baddeley, Susan Gathercole, Alice Spooner

    In order to read sentences, children must first be able to decode the individual words. Failure at this stage will lead to later problems, even in the case of an intelligent child who has good comprehension skills. The Reading Decision Test consists of two tests, The Word Decision Test and The...

    Published October 29th 2003 by Psychology Press

  8. The Reading Decision Test

    Word Decision 2

    By Alan Baddeley, Susan Gathercole, Alice Spooner

    In order to read sentences, children must first be able to decode the individual words. Failure at this stage will lead to later problems, even in the case of an intelligent child who has good comprehension skills. The Reading Decision Test consists of two tests, The Word Decision Test and The...

    Published October 29th 2003 by Psychology Press

  9. The Reading Decision Test

    Letter Decision 1

    By Alan Baddeley, Susan Gathercole, Alice Spooner

    In order to read sentences, children must first be able to decode the individual words. Failure at this stage will lead to later problems, even in the case of an intelligent child who has good comprehension skills. The Reading Decision Test consists of two tests, The Word Decision Test and The...

    Published October 29th 2003 by Psychology Press

  10. Processing Instruction

    Theory, Research, and Commentary

    Edited by BIll VanPatten

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    This new book, Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary, edited by Bill VanPatten--a pioneer in processing instruction (PI)--is a refreshing presentation of 10 related and not widely available articles that illustrate the role of processing instruction in second language acquisition...

    Published August 31st 2003 by Routledge