Speech category: 462 books
The Childes Project
Tools for Analyzing Talk, Volume I: Transcription format and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project. It is divided into two parts which provide an introduction to the use of computational tools for studying language learning. The first part is the CHAT manual, which describes the conventions and principles...
Constraints on Language Acquisition
Studies of Atypical Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interaction of innate biologically-based mechanisms devoted to language, other non-linguistic cognitive and social mechanisms, linguistic input, and information...
Relating Events in Narrative
A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes--more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages--and...
Second Language Acquisition
An Introductory Course
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related...
Reading Chinese Script
A Cognitive Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses during the character and word recognition process, though some of the reported work also pertains to the use of phonological information. In addition, this volume contains work on syntactic and pragmatic processes...
Classification of Developmental Language Disorders
Theoretical Issues and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
How are two or more languages learned and contained in the same mind or the same community? This handbook presents an up-to-date view of the concept of multi-competence, exploring the research questions it has generated and the methods that have been used to investigate it. The book brings together...
Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders
Toward A New Framework for Clinical intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
A growing body of literature is suggesting that many children with language disorders and delays--even those with so-called specific language impairment--have difficulties in other domains as well. In this pathbreaking book, the authors draw on more than 40 years of research and clinical observations...
Korero Tahi
Talking Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
A small book, this is a successor to the author’s extremely successful Talking Past Each Other and suggests ways of managing group discussion by drawing on Maori protocol. A practical guide in a wide range of contexts, it also has wider implications for the society as a whole.
Language and Communication in Mental Retardation
Development, Processes, and intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Research on language and communication development and intervention in persons with mental retardation has been conducted at a fast and furious pace during the last two decades. Past attempts to summarize this research have been rather restricted, focusing on a single, narrowly defined substantive...
by Quentin Bach
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Nobody is born a great orator. Being a good speaker requires a lot of training and planning. The world's greatest speakers: Socrates, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and many, many more have spent a lot of time polishing and practicing their speeches before delivering them and stunning the audience.
Childhood Bilingualism
Aspects of Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dyslexia
Learning Disorder or Creative Gift?
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Dyslexia has long been known as a learning difficulty that primarily affects literacy skills. Increasingly, however, researchers and professionals working with dyslexia suggest that it is less a disorder than a sign of specially gifted people. People with dyslexia often have a highly developed imagination...
Policy Debate
A Guide for High School and College Debaters
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In Policy Debate: A Guide for High School and College Debaters, Shawn F. Briscoe introduces educators, coaches, and students at the high school and college levels to the concepts at the foundation of policy debate, also known as cross-examination debate, and uses conceptual analysis and real-world...