The Development of Language by Martyn Barrett

The Development of Language by Martyn Barrett

This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development; bilingualism; precursors to language development in infancy; and the language development of children with developmental disabilities, including children with specific language impairment. Written by leading international authorities, each chapter summarises clearly and lucidly our current state of knowledge, and carefully explains and evaluates the theories which have been proposed to account for children's development in that area.

`This edited volume is a stimulating collection of theoretically-oriented review papers which includes contributions from some of the leading researchers in the fieldAs such, it will make a useful book of readings for an intermediate or advanced level course on language development. Moreover, since some of the papers are eminently citeable in their own right, it is also likely to be widely read by other Researchers in the field.' - Julian Pine, University of Nottingham

`This is an up-to-date, important and exciting book that deserves a prominent position on the bookshelves of all researchers who are interested in child language ... The contributors to this book not only report and evaluate many of the exciting findings of the field, but also ask themselves searching questions that no doubt will stimulate research over the next few years.' - Professor Gina Conti-Ramsden, University of Manchester

'Martyn Barrett has done an excellent job of bringing together a series of chapters, which offer a coherent coverage of the area. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including important areas conventionally not covered in such texts, e.g. sign language, and atypical devlopment. The clearly written introduction serves both to introduce the book in a useful fashion and will, no doubt, serve as a framework to the area for many lecturers.' - Dr Julie Dockrell, South Bank University

`Provides a welcome helping hand for anyone trying to unite theoretical approaches across the many facets of language development presented in this detailed and illuminating collection of papers.' - Josie Briscoe, Child Psychology and Psychiatry

'This book is impressive for its up-to-date coverage of a broad range of topics in language development. It certainly sent me running to update my students' reading lists to include several of its chapters.' - Ann Dowker, University of Oxford, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

'This book is a welcome retrospective of some key findings in psycholinguistics in the 20th century.' - Julia Gillen, Manchester Metropolitan University, in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

'This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field of language acquisition.' - Rita Brdar-Szabo, Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association

' a rich introduction to the domain of child language development [ ] Barrett does a very good job in addressing every single issue crucial to understanding the debate about how children learn their mother tongue, and along with his authors he should be commended on presenting a balanced and therefore rich overview of the main questions, models, processes and achievements in researching child language acquisition.' - Dorit Ravid, Tel Aviv University, Journal of Child Language

Martyn Barrett is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK. He obtained his degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. He works on national and ethnic enculturation, prejudice and stereotyping, identities and practices of ethnic minority and mixed-heritage individuals, intercultural competence, and political cognition, attitudes and active citizenship. He is currently leading an FP7 project funded by the European Commission on Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP), which is running from 2009-2012, and is working as an expert advisor to the Council of Europe. He is an Academic Director of the multidisciplinary Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM) at the University of Surrey, and an Academician of the Social Sciences. Chris Flood is Professor of European Studies in the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey, UK, where he is also an Academic Director of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM). He has published extensively on ideological discourses, theory of political myth, defensive nationalism, and the politics of intellectuals in Britain and France. With Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich and Henri Nickels, he is currently writing a monograph entitled Islam, Security and Television News (forthcoming, Palgrave) and co-editing two related collections. John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology as well as the Executive Director of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM) which links Roehampton University and the University of Surrey, UK. After research in Kolkata (Calcutta) on the social identity of the educated Bengali Muslim middle class, he completed his PhD in 1986 on Bangladeshi community politics in Tower Hamlets. Since then he has researched the Islamisation of urban space, globalisation and the global city, travel and pilgrimage, forced marriage, black Methodists in London, and Bangladeshi identity politics. His books include The Politics of Community: The Bangladeshi Community in East London (1989), Placing London: From Imperial Capital to Global City (2000), and Accession and Migration: Changing Policy, Society, and Culture in an Enlarged Europe (2009).

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ISBN 13	9780863778476
ISBN 10	086377847X
Title	The Development of Language
Author	Martyn Barrett
Series	Studies In Developmental Psychology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1999-09-02
Number of pages	430
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