Communicative Competence of Young Children - A Modular Approach

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.

List of contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Background Concepts. 2. Foundations of early communication. 3. Prelinguistic communicative competence and the early lexicon. 4. Communicating with language. 5. Explaining the development of communicative competence. 6. Studying child language. Further reading. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Authored by Foster-Cohen, Susan

Summary

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.

Product details

• Authors: Susan H Foster, Susan Foster-Cohen, Susan H Foster-Cohen, Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Foster-Cohen Susan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138835689
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83568-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Language and Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Language acquisition