Developmental Psychology Arena

The Emergence of Language

• Edited by Brian MacWhinney

For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these...

Published February 1st 1999 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis

• Edited by David Birdsong

In language learning, the rule of thumb is: the earlier the better. Children exposed to language from birth are uniformly successful in first language acquisition...

Published January 1st 1999 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Foreign Language Learning

Psycholinguistic Studies on Training and Retention

• Edited by Alice F. Healy, Jr., Lyle E. Bourne

Based on a research project funded by the Army Research Institute, Foreign Language Learning reports original empirical and theoretical research on foreign language acquisition and...

Published October 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The New Psychology of Language

Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume I

• Edited by Michael Tomasello

This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next...

Published July 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Mental Logic

• Edited by Martin D.S. Braine, David P. O'Brien, Martin Braine

Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been attacks by critics...

Published April 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Uncommon Understanding

Development and Disorders of Language Comprehension in Children

• By Dorothy V.M. Bishop

A great deal has been written on how children learn to speak, but development of language comprehension has been a relatively neglected topic. This book...

Published February 27th 1998 by Psychology Press.

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The Generative Study of Second Language Acquisition

• Edited by Suzanne Flynn, Gita Martohardjono, Wayne O'Neil

The vast majority of work in theoretical linguistics from a generative perspective is based on first language acquisition and performance. The vast majority of work...

Published January 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Effective Speech-language Pathology

A Cognitive Socialization Approach

• By John R. Muma

This book is the first to summarize the voluminous literature on the development of cognitive, codification, language, and expressive/affective (CCCE) skills from a clinical standpoint....

Published December 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

Volume 4

• Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups--Finnish,...

Published November 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts

• Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin

In this final volume in the series, the contributors attempt to "expand the contexts" in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically. The chapters build...

Published November 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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