Understanding Children Lang Problem

Introduction to the study of children's language difficulties, drawing widely on real-life examples.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Glossary of text conventions and symbols; Introduction; Part I. Problems with Words: 1. What's in a word?; 2. The child's road to words; 3. Blocks on the road to words; 4. Exploring the blockage; 5. 'Dant always day dings': problems with phonology; 6. 'Stip' or 'step' or 'slip' or what?: problems with lexical processing; Part II. Grappling with Verb Structure: 7. Translating events; 8. Growing verb structures; 9. Shortfalls with verbs; 10. 'Thing out. Tip in there': problems with verb processing; Part III. Missing Function Morphemes: 11. Filling out sentences; 12. 'That one not working, see': problems with auxiliary verb processing; Part VI. Hidden Meanings, Baffling Meanings: 13. The roots of meaning; 14. '[æ] you don't tell nobody this?': strengths in pragmatic processing; 15. 'I can speak Chinese. But I can't speak Chinese': problems in pragmatic processing; Endpoint and springboard; Further reading; References; Index.

Summary

Some children can hear and can speak, yet have trouble understanding or producing utterances. Shula Chiat explores the stumbling blocks which lie behind their struggle. She focuses on individual children, the extensive examples which illustrate their difficulties, and the step-by-step search for the source of those difficulties.

Product details

• Authors: Shula Chiat, Shula (City University London) Chiat
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780521573863
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57386-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 209 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 416 g
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Lingui; Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics; Cambridge Approaches to Lingui
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures