Language Development and Language Impairment – A Problem–Based Introduction

<p>Companion Website vii</p>
<p>Preface ix</p>
<p>1 Overview 1</p>
<p>1.1 The Effects of Preschool Language Impairment 1</p>
<p>1.2 The Ambient Language 3</p>
<p>1.3 Typical Language Development 9</p>
<p>1.4 Atypical Language Development 21</p>
<p>2 The First Year of Life 33</p>
<p>2.1 Introduction 33</p>
<p>2.2 Social Development and Language Learning 35</p>
<p>2.3 Cognitive Development and Language Development 53</p>
<p>2.4 Speech Production in Infancy 61</p>
<p>2.5 Speech Perception in Infancy 71</p>
<p>2.6 Further Problems 80</p>
<p>3 Sounds 91</p>
<p>3.1 The Learning Task 91</p>
<p>3.2 The Role of Perception 94</p>
<p>3.3 The Production of Vowels 102</p>
<p>3.4 The Production of Consonants 114</p>
<p>3.5 Further Problems 127</p>
<p>4 Words 133</p>
<p>4.1 Early Vocabulary Development 133</p>
<p>4.2 Learning to Label: First Steps 138</p>
<p>4.3 Building a Lexicon 148</p>
<p>4.4 Lexical Growth and Individual Differences 152</p>
<p>4.5 Beyond Nouns 157</p>
<p>4.6 A Bridge to Syntax 163</p>
<p>4.7 Further Problems 166</p>
<p>5 Combining Words 175</p>
<p>5.1 Introduction 175</p>
<p>5.2 Transcribing and Analyzing Language Samples 177</p>
<p>5.3 Verb Forms 193</p>
<p>5.4 Interrogatives: Asking Questions 201</p>
<p>5.5 Complex Sentences 212</p>
<p>5.6 Further Problems 223</p>
<p>6 Beyond the Sentence 229</p>
<p>6.1 Introduction 229</p>
<p>6.2 Early Pragmatic Competence 231</p>
<p>6.3 Discourse Skills 1: Conversations 235</p>
<p>6.4 Discourse Skills 2: Telling Stories 250</p>
<p>6.5 Presupposition 256</p>
<p>6.6 Pragmatic Language Difficulties: Implications for Treatment 258</p>
<p>6.7 Further Problems 261</p>
<p>Appendix 1: The International Phonetic Alphabet 269</p>
<p>Appendix 2: Reliability and Validity 271</p>
<p>Appendix 3: Sensitivity and Specificity 275</p>
<p>Appendix 4: Techniques for Exploring Speech Perception in Infants 277</p>
<p>Appendix 5: Grammatical Analysis Using the LARSP Profile 279</p>
<p>Index 291</p>