The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

Edith L. Bavin is Professor in the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe University, Australia.

1. Introduction: perspectives on child language Edith L. Bavin; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches: 2. Innateness and learnability Virginia Valian; 3. Statistical learning Eric Thiessen; 4. Neurocognition of language development Angela D. Friederici; 5. The usage-based theory of language acquisition Michael Tomasello; 6. Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition Sabine Stoll; Part II. Early Developments: 7. Speech perception Suzanne Curtin and Dan Hufnagle; 8. Crosslinguistic perspectives on segmentation and categorization in early language acquisition Barbara Höhle; 9. From gesture to word Susan Goldin-Meadow; Part III. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax: 10. A dynamic systems approach to babbling and words Marilyn M. Vihman, Rory A. DePaolis and Tamar Keren-Portnoy; 11. The prosody of syllables, words and morphemes Katherine Demuth; 12. Grammatical categories Heike Behrens; 13. Verb argument structure Shanley Allen; 14. The first language acquisition of complex sentences Barbara C. Lust, Claire Foley and Cristina D. Dye; 15. The morphosyntax interface Kamil Ud Deen; Part IV. Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse: 16. Lexical meaning Eve V. Clark; 17. Sentence scope Stephen Crain; 18. Sentence processing Jesse Snedeker; 19. Pragmatic development Judith Becker Bryant; 20. Language development in narrative contexts Ruth A. Berman; Part V. Varieties of Development: 21. Children with two languages Barbara Zurer Pearson; 22. Sign language acquisition studies Diane Lillo-Martin; 23. Children with specific language impairment J. Bruce Tomblin; 24. Language symptoms and their possible sources in specific language impairment Laurence B. Leonard; 25. The language of children with autism Rhiannon J. Luyster and Catherine Lord; 26. Language development in genetic disorders Fiona M. Richardson and Michael S. C. Thomas.