From First Words to Grammar: Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms

By Inge Bretherton, Lynn Sebestyen Snyder, Elizabeth Bates

Book Overview

This book is a comprehensive study of the passage from first words to grammar in a sample of children large enough to permit systematic analysis of individual differences in style and rate of development. The authors provide a large body of information about first words and early grammatical development in qualitative and quantitative patterns that are useful not only for researchers in the field, but for speech/language pathologists and early childhood educators interested in the assessment of early language. The results support a unified functionalist approach to language development, and have implications for the way we think about the structure and breakdown of language under normal and abnormal conditions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052142500X
• ISBN13: 9780521425001
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"