Language Development
by Dan Taylor
1. 1. Overview
1.1. Course
1.2. Biological Bases
1.3. Structure
1.4. Study
2. 2. Infants
2.1. Pre-Speech
2.1.1. Communicative Intent
2.1.2. Social Context
3. 3. Phonology
3.1. English
3.2. Infant Speech Perception
3.3. Production
3.3.1. Pre-Linguistic
3.3.2. Protowords
3.4. Cognitive Approaches
3.5. Learning to Pronounce
3.6. Morphophonological Acquisition
3.7. Parental Role
4. 4. Semantics
4.1. Relationship
4.1.1. Words
4.1.2. Referents
4.2. Theory
4.3. Early Words
4.4. Adult Speech
4.4.1. Influence
4.5. Later Development
4.6. Metalinguistic Development
5. 5. Preschoolers
5.1. Morphology
5.1.1. Development
5.2. Syntax
5.2.1. Nature
5.2.2. Development
5.2.3. Measuring
5.2.4. 2-Word Utterances
5.2.5. Sentence Modalities
5.3. Later Developments
5.4. Beyond Preschool
6. 6. Preschool
6.1. Communicative Competence
6.2. Social Context
7. 7. Theoretical Approaches
7.1. Distinguishing Features
7.2. Behavioural
7.3. Linguistic
7.4. Interactionist
8. 8. Individual Differences
8.1. Research History
8.2. Early Words
8.3. Speech Stream
8.3.1. Segmenting
8.4. Early Sentences
8.5. Stability
8.6. Sources
8.7. Context
8.7.1. Child
8.7.2. Care-giver
8.7.3. Language
8.8. Implications
8.8.1. L Acquisition