Language Development and Developmental Language Disorder

Acquisition of the native language proceeds in a stage-wise manner for both typically developing (TD) children and children with developmental language disorder (DLD). As shown in TD children learning Dutch and German, the ability to establish contextual cohesion serves as the driving force to proceed from a simple, lexical system to a more complex, functional system. It is argued that precisely this ability is challenged in children with DLD. The present book offers an account of the functional linguistic features fit to achieve contextual cohesion in language production. It provides a rationale for practitioners to develop linguistically founded tools to be used in speech therapy.

About the author

Peter Jordens, VU Universität Amsterdam, Niederlande.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Jordens (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2023
• EAN: 9783111355726
• ISBN: 978-3-11-135572-6
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 346 g
• Illustrations: 36 b/w ill., 20 b/w tbl.
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]; ISSN; Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA], 62
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics