Titlebook: Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development; David J. Messer (Reader in Developmental Psycholog Book 1993 Palgrave M

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Affording Social-Cognitive Skills in Young Children: the Overhearing Context theoretical framework for investigating young children’s participation abilities in conversation. The suggestion will be made that of all conceivable social cognitive skills, the ability to understand and engage in conversations is the most important ability that a child must attain. We need to con

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Social Class, Maternal Speech and the Child’s Semantic Orientationy, the most challenging — and the most challenged — theorising in this area is that of Bernstein, with his wide-ranging code theory. As a theory of cultural reproduction and social production, Bernstein’s central concern is with the transmission/acquisition process. If one thinks of Bernstein’s earl

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Critical Influences on the Acquisition of Verb Transitivitynmental influences. More recently, learnability theory (cf. Atkinson, 1986 and references therein) has viewed grammar acquisition as an interaction between, on the one hand, allegedly innate linguistic principles and, on the other, syntactic input data provided by the linguistic environment in which

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Phonological Processes and Sign Language Developmentoncerned with the development of American Sign Language (ASL; see Newport and Meier, 1985; Meier and Newport, 1990, for useful reviews). The recognition of sign languages such as ASL and British Sign Language (BSL) as full natural languages has led to an interest in the ways in which language develo

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The Nature of the Linguistic and Communication Difficulties of Children with Autismable proportion of individuals with autism remain mute (Rutter, 1970). However, it is clear that autism is not a language disorder as such, in that structural aspects of language may remain intact (in the 10 per cent of individuals with autism who have no additional handicaps). And regardless of the