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Author:   John W. Oller, Jr. ,  Stephen D. Oller ,  Stacy N. Oller
Publisher:   Plural Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Plural Publishing Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.111kg
ISBN:  

9781597565011

ISBN 10:   1597565016
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Development Across the Life Span Objectives Getting There Earlier Than Expected Language Systems and Their Grammars Intentional Actions Are Grammatical Principles of Development Common Ground: Where the Researchers Agree You Can Make a Difference Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 2. Before and Just After Birth Objectives Actions Are Crucial to Development The Integration of Sensation and Movement Symbols: Emotion, Memory, Imagination, and Language Testing Sensation and Movement at Birth Connecting Language with Content Innate Language Capacity or Just Biomechanics? Cross-Modal Transfer and Integration of the Senses Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 3. Language Acquisition theory Objectives Three Kinds of Work Distinguishing Forms of Speech Abstraction Abstracted Signs Enrich Experience Learning to Understand What You Don't Understand Making A Critical Distinction Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 4. Entities That Move and Talk Objectives Coordinating Movements Solving the Forms of Significant Movements The Nonverbal Signs Needed for Words The Surprising Problem of Identities The Sign Cycle The Iconic Cycle of Abstraction The Indexical Cycle Abstracting and Generalizing to the Hypostatic Index Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 5. Working Up to A Receptive Vocabulary Objectives Integrating the Nonverbal Signs with the Verbal Levels of Reference and the Logical Positions of Discourse Building Up to Tertiary Reference The Infant Uses All Three Positions of Discourse Indexes as the Connectors Discriminating Linguistic Symbols Gaining Motor Control of Surface-Forms Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 6. From One Word to Grammatical Strings Objectives Reviewing What's Already Been Achieved Working Backward from the Goal What's an Argument The Growing Hierarchy of Sign Systems Moving Beyond Zero Order Predicates Zero Order Predicates Become Arguments Meaningful Questions About Words Emerge Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 7. Pragmatics And Literacy Objectives From Surface-Forms to Pragmatics The First Symbols Are TNRs The Adult Level of Mature Reasoning A General Limit of Abstractness Obstacles to Success with Phonics Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 8. Meaning Outranks Surface Form Objectives It's All About Meaning Meaning Enables Communication Whole Language Approaches The Critical Role of Narrative-Like Sequences Universals of Chronology Becoming Literate Is Cognitive Empowerment Achieving Ordinary Coherence Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 9. Different Languages, Dialects, and Cultures Objectives Consequences of Language/Dialect Differences The Difference Between Languages and Dialects New Varieties Are Constantly Arising Language Varieties at School Evaluating Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Abilities Revisiting Disproportionality in LD and Gifted Classifications How to Achieve Valid Measurements, Assessments, and Judgments Nonprimary Language Instruction/Acquisition Methods That Work: Always Involve Pragmatic Mapping Summing Up and Looking Ahead Study and Discussion Questions Chapter 10. Development in Relation to Disorders and Dissolution Objectives The Theory of True Narrative Representations Classifications of Disorders The Milestones Scale of Development Parents as Diagnosticians Physical, Emotional (Social and Behavioral), and Mental Development Disorders Are Linked to Toxins Solving the Mystery Disorders Epidemic Autism, Alzheimer's, and Other Disorders Life, a Mystery: Mortality? Not So Much Summing Up and Looking Beyond this Book Study and Discussion Questions References Glossary of Terms Index of Authors, Subjects, and Technical Terms Appendix 1. Battery of Multiple Choice Test Questions Appendix 2. Battery of Multiple-Choice Test Questions: With Answers and Cross-References to Text

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John Oller, Jr., Ph.D. John W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D., has given a lifetime of study to language acquisition. He began his work as a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. He went on to found the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico and the Applied Language and Speech Sciences Ph.D. Program at the University of Louisiana. Stephen Oller, Ph.D. Stephen D. Oller, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program (in the Department of Biological and Health Sciences) at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Stacy Oller, M.S., CCC-SLP Stacy Oller, M.S., has been practicing as a pediatric Speech Language Pathologist for 10 years. She received her B.A. from Louisiana State University and her M.S. from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

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