The Development of Language - Softcover

Gleason, Jean Berko, Ph.D.; Ratner, Nan Bernstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635504260 ISBN 13: 9781635504262

Verlag: Plural Publishing Inc, 2023

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"Our book presents language development in an unbiased way; it includes all the major theoretical approaches and evidence that supports each. In addition, we show the real-world applications and relevance of findings in typical language development for children who experience difficulty in learning some aspects of language and communication"--

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Jean Berko Gleason, PhD is one of the world's leading experts on children's language. She is professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and former director of BU's Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics. Dr. Gleason has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Harvard, and the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard/Radcliffe. She has been president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and is the author and editor of leading textbooks on language development and psycholinguistics. She created the Wug Test, the best known experimental study of children's language acquisition. Since writing her doctoral dissertation on how children learn to make plurals and past tenses in English she has published more than 125 articles on aphasia, language attrition, language development in children, gender differences in parents' speech, and cross-cultural differences. Her work is frequently cited in the professional literature, and has been featured in the popular press and on television, where she is featured in the PBS award-winning online Nova Science Now series "The Secret Life of Scientists." Her honors include an honorary degree from Washington and Jefferson College as well as the Roger Brown Award from the International Association for the Study of Child Language. ***** Nan Bernstein Ratner, EdD, CCC-SLP is a Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Maryland at College Park. She conducts research that has been funded by both the US NIDCD and NSF, and publishes frequently in the areas of language acquisition and speech/language disorders. Dr. Bernstein Ratner is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is an ASHA Honors recipient.

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• Verlag: Plural Publishing Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1635504260
• ISBN 13: 9781635504262
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444
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