Language Development in the Pre-School Years (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Setting up the research; 2. Describing child speech in its conversational context; 3. Some general characteristics of the data from the naturalisitic observations; 4. The sequence of emergence of certain semantic and pragmatic systems; 5. The sequence of emergence: syntax and its relationship with other levels of analysis; 6. The pattern of development over time; 7. The children and their families; 8. Variation in language development; 9. the role of the input in language development; 10. Learning through interaction; Appendices; Notes; References; Index.