(eBook PDF) Language Development: An Introduction 9th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780133810363
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0133810363
• Author: Robert E. Owens, Jr. 

This best-selling introduction to language development text offers a cohesive, easy-to-understand overview of all aspects of the subject, from syntax, morphology, and semantics, to phonology and pragmatics. Each idea and concept is explained in a way that is clear to even beginners in the field, and then reinforced with outstanding pedagogical aids such as discussion questions, chapter objectives, reflections, and main point boxed features. The book looks at how children learn to communicate in general and in English specifically, while emphasizing individual patterns of communication development. The new Ninth Edition of Language Development by Robert Owens continues the distribution of bilingual and dialectal development throughout the text; expands the discussion of children from lower-SES families, including those living in homeless shelters; makes substantial improvements in the organization and clarity of Chapter 4 on cognition and its relationship to speech and language; consolidates information on Theory of Mind in one chapter; improves readability throughout with more thorough explanations, simplification of terms, and increased use of headings and bullets; weeds out redundancies and asides to help streamline the reading; provides more child language examples throughout; and thoroughly updates the research, including the addition of several hundred new references. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video.
Table contents:

1. The Territory
2. Describing Language
3. Neurological Bases of Speech and Language
4. Cognitive, Perceptual and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech
5. The Social and Communicative Bases of Early Language and Speech
6. Language-Learning and Teaching Processes and Young Children
7. First Words and Word Combinations in Toddler Talk
8. Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development
9. Preschool Development of Language Form
10. Early School-Age Language Development
11. School-Age Literacy Development
12. Adolescent and Adult Language
13. Appendix A: American English Speech Sounds
14. Appendix B: Major Racial and Ethnic Dialects of American English
15. Appendix C: Development Summary
16. Appendix D: Computing MLU
17. Appendix E: Background Grammar
18. Glossary
19. References
20. Author Index
21. Subject Index

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