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Author:   Jean Berko Gleason ,  Nan Bernstein Ratner
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Allyn & Bacon
Edition:   United States ed of 8th revised ed
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780132612388

ISBN 10:   0132612380
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   25 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE: AN OVERVIEW AND A PREVIEW Jean Berko Gleason, Boston University 2. COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY Rochelle Newman, University of Maryland Jacqueline Sachs, University of Connecticut 3. PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: LEARNING SOUNDS AND SOUND PATTERNS Carol Stoel-Gammon, University of Washington Lise Menn, University of Colorado 4. SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT: LEARNING THE MEANINGS OF WORDS Paola Uccelli, Harvard Graduate School of Education Barbara Alexander Pan, Harvard Graduate School of Education 5. PUTTING WORDS TOGETHER: MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX IN THE PRESCHOOL YEARS Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University Andrea Zukowski, University of Maryland 6. LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS: DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Judith Becker Bryant, University of South Florida 7. THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION John N. Bohannon III, Butler University John D. Bonvillian, University of Virginia 8. VARIATION IN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND THEORY Beverly A. Goldfield, Rhode Island College Catherine E. Snow, Harvard Graduate School of Education Ingrid A Willenberg, Macquarie University 9. ATYPICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Nan Bernstein Ratner, University of Maryland, College Park 10. LANGUAGE AND LITERACY IN THE SCHOOL YEARS Gigliana Melzi, New York University Adina R. Schick, New York University 11. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ADULT YEARS Loraine K. Obler, City University of New York Graduate Center

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Jean Berko Gleason, PhD. is one of the world's leading experts on children's language and one of the founding mothers of the field of psycholinguistics. She created the famous Wug Test, which reveals how children learn the rules of language, such as how to make singular words plural. Her current work investigates parents' speech and the interactive nature of language acquisition. She is the author of leading textbooks in her field and many influential studies of aphasia, language development, gender differences in language, and language in the Roma community in Hungary. Dr. Berko Gleason is Professor Emerita in the department of psychology at Boston University. A member of the Academy of Aphasia, she is past president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language and of the Gypsy Lore Society. Her work is frequently cited in the professional literature, and has been featured in the popular media. She is profiled in the PBS online Nova Science Now series The Secret Life of Scientists. Nan Bernstein Ratner, Ed.D., C.C.C. is Professor and Chair, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Bernstein Ratner is the editor of numerous volumes, and author of numerous chapters and articles addressing language acquisition and fluency in children. Many of her research reports can be found in the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research and other major journals, with chapters in major texts on child speech and language development. With Jean Berko Gleason, Dr. Bernstein Ratner is the author of the text Psycholinguistics as well as prior editions of Language Development. Dr. Bernstein Ratner currently serves as Co-editor of Seminars in Speech and Language. In 1996, Dr. Ratner was made a fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association. In 2006, she was presented with the Distinguished Researcher Award by the International Fluency Association.

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