Language Development: An Introduction Global Edition - Robert E. Owens Jr.

For college students in courses with the same topic in communication disorders psychology and education. A best-selling comprehensive easy-to-understand introduction to language development. This best-selling introduction to language development text offers a cohesive easy-to-understand overview of all aspects of the subject from syntax morphology and semantics to phonology and pragmatics. Each idea and concept is explained in a way that is clear to even beginning students and then reinforced with outstanding pedagogical aids such as discussion questions chapter objectives reflections and main point boxed features. The book looks at how children learn to communicate in general and in English specifically while emphasizing individual patterns of communication development. The new Ninth Edition continues the distribution of bilingual and dialectal development throughout the text; expands the discussion of children from lower-SES families including those living in homeless shelters; makes substantial improvements in the organization and clarity of Chapter 4 on cognition and its relationship to speech and language; consolidates information on Theory of Mind in one chapter; improves readability throughout with more thorough explanations simplification of terms and increased use of headings and bullets; weeds out redundancies and asides to help streamline the reading; provides more child language examples throughout; and thoroughly updates the research including the addition of several hundred new references.

TITLE: Language Development: An Introduction Global Edition

AUTHOR: Robert E. Owens Jr.

SKU: 9781292104423

PUBLISHER: Pearson Education Limited

DATE PUBLISHED: 14/08/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 464

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 204 mm x 254 mm x 24 mm

WEIGHT: 972 gr