内容简介
ErikaHoff'sLANGUAGEDEVELOPMENT,5thEditioncommunicatesboththecontentandtheexcitementofthisquicklyevolvingfield.Bypresentingabalancedtreatmentthatexaminesallsidesoftheissues,Hoffhelpsreadersunderstanddifferenttheoreticalpointsofview--andtheresearchprocessesthathaveleadtheoriststotheirfindings.Afteranoverviewandhistoryofthefield,Hoffthoroughlycoversthebiologicalbasesoflanguagedevelopmentandthecoretopicsofphonological,lexical,andsyntacticdevelopment.Shealsoprovidesin-depthdiscussionsofthecommunicativefoundationsoflanguage,thedevelopmentofcommunicativecompetence,languagedevelopmentinspecialpopulations,childhoodbilingualism,andlanguagedevelopmentintheschoolyears.