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Language Development: An Introduction, 7/E
Robert E. Owens, Jr., State University of New York, Geneseo

ISBN-10: 0205525563
ISBN-13:  9780205525560

Publisher:  Allyn & Bacon
Copyright:  2008
Format:  Paper; 528 pp
Published:  03/12/2007


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Clearly written, well organized, and comprehensive, Language Development is the most widely used text in its field.

 

In recognition of the language variations among children, new advances in linguistics and neurology, and the importance of literacy, the Seventh Edition of this highly readable text devotes significant space to these areas as they impact our understanding of individual development. In addition, discussion of other cultures is included in the text wherever possible. Sections on culturally linguistically diverse children accurately reflect the realities of everyday life in the United States.

 

Developed within a practical chronological framework, the Seventh Edition examines every aspect of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. As in previous editions, Owens presents even the most complex, technical concepts at an appropriate level for beginning students.


Features

  • Chapter 2, “Describing Language,” includes Emergentism, rounding out the theoretical approaches to the topic.
  • Chapter 3, “Neurological Bases of Speech and Language,” includes the latest information on Theory of Mind. Subsequent chapters address this topic within development.
  • This new edition includes a concise chapter on adult language development.
  • Examples of child language are placed throughout the book to help students understand the changes in language development.


New To This Edition

  • The new edition includes an entire chapter on literacy development.
  • Updates to Chapter 4, “Neurolinguistics,” include the latest in brain imaging information to convey key links between anatomy, physiology, cognition, and language, and the roles these links play in the development of language abnormalities.
  • The Companion Website now includes extensive audio examples of child language as well as new study guide content for student review.
  • New two color format design and larger trim for better readability.


Table of Contents

All chapters begin with “Chapter Objectives” and conclude with “Conclusion,” “Discussions,” and “Reflections.”


Preface


1. The Territory

This Text and You

Speech, Language, and Communication

Properties of Language

Components of Language


2. Describing Language

Behavioral Theory

Psycholinguistic Theory: A Syntactic Model

Psycholinguistic Theory: A Semantic/Cognitive Model

Sociolinguistic Theory

Emergentism


3. Neurological Bases of Speech and Language

Central Nervous System

Language Processing

Theory of Mind


4. Cognitive, Perceptual, and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech

Which Came First, Cognition or Language?

Neurological Development

Early Cognitive Development


5. The Social and Communicative Bases of Early Language and Speech

Development of Communication: A Chronology

Maternal Communication Behaviors

Interactions between Infant and Caregiver


6. Language-Learning and Teaching Processes and Young Children.

Comprehension, Production, and Cognitive Growth

Child Learning Strategies

Adult Conversational Teaching Techniques

Importance of Play

Cultural and Social Differences

7. A First Language: Toddler Talk

Single-Word Utterances

Early Multiword Combinations

Phonological Learning


8. Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development

Preschool Development

Pragmatic Development

Semantic Development

Interdependence of Form, Content, and Use: Pronouns.


9. Preschool Development of Language Form

Semantic-Syntactic Connection

Stages of Syntactic and Morphologic Development

Morphologic Development

Sentence-Form Development

Embedding and Conjoining

Phonemic and Phonological Development


10. Early School-Age Language Development

Pragmatic Development

Semantic Development

Syntactic and Morphologic Development

Phonological Development

Metalinguistic Abilities


11. School-Age Literacy Development

The Process of Reading

Reading Development

The Process of Writing

Writing Development


12. Adolescent and Adult Language

Pragmatics

Semantics

Syntax and Morphology

Phonology

Literacy

13. Language Differences: Bidialectism and Bilingualism

Dialects

Bilingualism

 

14. Language Research and Analysis

Issues in the Study of Childhood Language

Cross-Language Studies

Examples of Child Language Data


Appendix A: American English Speech Sounds
Appendix B: Transcripts to Accompany Text Compact Disc


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“What I really like about the Owens text is that he goes into enough detail to make it a ‘meaty’ text for the serious student.” —Margery Whites, St. Cloud State University

 

“The Owens Language Development text provides students with a wealth of current information. I have been satisfied with this text.” — Barbara Weitzner-Lin, State University College of Buffalo


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Language Development: An Introduction, 7/e

Robert E. Owens, Jr.

 

 

“What I really like about the Owens text is that he goes into enough detail to make it a ‘meaty’ text for the serious student.”

—Margery Whites, St. Cloud State University

 

 

“The Owens Language Development text provides students with a wealth of current information.”

— Barbara Weitzner-Lin, State University College of Buffalo

 

 

Now in its seventh edition, this best-selling text addresses language variations among children, new advances in linguistics and neurology, and the importance of literacy, as well the impact of these issues on our understanding of individual development. In addition, this clearly written and comprehensive text features sections on culturally and linguistically diverse children to reflect the realities of schools in the United States. Developed within a practical framework, Language Development: An Introduction examines every aspect of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics.

 

 

New features to this edition include:

  • A new chapter (Ch. 11) on School-Age Literacy Development.
  • Updates to the chapter on Cognitive, Perceptual, and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech (Ch. 4) that include the latest in brain imaging information to convey links between anatomy, physiology, cognition, and language, as well as the roles these links play in the development of language abnormalities.
  • New two color format design and larger trim for better readability.
  • Updated Companion Website that now includes extensive audio examples of child language as well as new study guide content for student review.

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