Routes to Language (Psychology Press Festschrift Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138876801 ISBN 13: 9781138876804

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child language acquisition, Melissa Bowerman. Melissa Bowerman has had a profound, widespread, and enduring influence on research conducted in the field for nearly 40 years.

In addition to being a tribute to Professor Bowerman and her work, the chapters provide the most up-to-date statement of key positions by several leaders in the field of child language development. Fundamental questions in the field are explored in depth, and there are rich analyses of progress in the field in a number of areas, including learning words; crosslinguistic patterning and acquisition of lexical semantics; crosslinguistic patterning and events, paths, and causes; and influences on development.

The volume is essential reading for researchers in child language and development, linguistics, psychology, education, and speech pathology, as well as researchers and practitioners specializing in the many specific languages discussed in the book.

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Review:

"A comprehensive and diverse volume on language acquisition which includes detailed accounts and studies written by experts in the field. It is data rich, and benefits from the inclusion of a wide-range of contemporary studies, review material, cross-sectional and longitudinal data, and cross-linguistic perspectives. ... [Those] interested in language acquisition and child language should find this volume to be a useful reference source." - Sandra P. Whiteside, University of Sheffield, UK, in The Phonetician

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138876801
• ISBN 13: 9781138876804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Mueller Gathercole Virginia C.