Language Development: An Introduction

by Robert E. Owens Jr.

For college students in courses with the same topic in communication disorders, psychology, and education.

A best-selling, comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to language development.

 

This best-selling introduction to language development text offers a cohesive, easy-to-understand overview of all aspects of the subject, from syntax, morphology, and semantics, to phonology and pragmatics. Each idea and concept is explained in a way that is clear to even beginning students and then reinforced with outstanding pedagogical aids such as discussion questions, chapter objectives, reflections, and main point boxed features. The book looks at how children learn to communicate in general and in English specifically, while emphasizing individual patterns of communication development. The new Ninth Edition continues the distribution of bilingual and dialectal development throughout the text; expands the discussion of children from lower-SES families, including those living in homeless shelters; makes substantial improvements in the organization and clarity of Chapter 4 on cognition and its relationship to speech and language; consolidates information on Theory of Mind in one chapter; improves readability throughout with more thorough explanations, simplification of terms, and increased use of headings and bullets; weeds out redundancies and asides to help streamline the reading; provides more child language examples throughout; and thoroughly updates the research, including the addition of several hundred new references.

 

Genres: Textbooks, School, Linguistics, Teaching, Psychology, Education, Reference

464 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Robert E. Owens, Jr., Ph.D. is a professor of speech-language pathology and director of the graduate program in speech pathology at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He is the author of a number of textbooks, book chapters, and articles, including Language Development: An Introduction (Allyn & Bacon, 2007), and the Program for Acquisition of Language with the Severely Impaired (PALS). He has presented more than 150 professional papers and workshops in both the U.S. and abroad.

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars. Good information, but awfully dense and complex for undergraduates.

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was informative, but too dense and filled with (in my opinion) unnecessary detail.

[Itsblue · Rating 3 out of 5]

دهنم سرویس شد تا خوندمش. مطالب به شدت فشرده بود و به سختی می شد در ذهن دسته بندیشون کرد (مخصوصا با اینهمه عددی که داشت).
با اینهمه منبعی ارزشمند برای مطالعه روند رشدی کودک

[Josita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Te amo librito q explica todo lo q necesito de la lingüística súper ordenado

[Tina Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great textbook for the topic. I read every word of it and it is VERY THOROUGH! The author adds some great personal insight and humor at times which makes it seem more personal, as if I am in class with him.

[Tracy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book with a ton of information. Information can be very dense but very informative. The author stays on topic and adds a lot of insight.