Understanding children with language problems
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Understanding children with language problems
(Cambridge approaches to linguistics)
Cambridge University Press, 2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-278) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Some children can hear and can speak, yet have trouble understanding or producing utterances. In this accessible introduction to children's language difficulties, Shula Chiat explores the stumbling blocks which lie behind their struggle. The uniqueness of this book lies in its focus on individual children, the extensive and intriguing examples which illustrate their problems, and the step-by-step search for the source of those problems. Difficulties with words, verb structures, function morphomenes, and meaning are examined and illustrated by detailed case studies. This book provides a clear overview of what children with language difficulties say and do, and introduces a logical approach to identifying children's language problems. It will be welcomed by students and researchers of linguistics, language development and language disorders; teachers of language-impaired children; and speech and language therapists.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary of text conventions and symbols
- Introduction
- Part I. Problems with Words: 1. What's in a word?
- 2. The child's road to words
- 3. Blocks on the road to words
- 4. Exploring the blockage
- 5. 'Dant always day dings': problems with phonology
- 6. 'Stip' or 'step' or 'slip' or what?: problems with lexical processing
- Part II. Grappling with Verb Structure: 7. Translating events
- 8. Growing verb structures
- 9. Shortfalls with verbs
- 10. 'Thing out. Tip in there': problems with verb processing
- Part III. Missing Function Morphemes: 11. Filling out sentences
- 12. 'That one not working, see': problems with auxiliary verb processing
- Part VI. Hidden Meanings, Baffling Meanings: 13. The roots of meaning
- 14. '[ae] you don't tell nobody this?': strengths in pragmatic processing
- 15. 'I can speak Chinese. But I can't speak Chinese': problems in pragmatic processing
- Endpoint and springboard
- Further reading
- References
- Index.
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