Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development (1st ed. 1993)

The book identifies and assesses the importance of a range of influences on child language acquisition and development, paying particular attention to situational influences.

Key issues are highlighted and recent research is succinctly presented.

There are five sections: the deployment of speech during early development; linguistic interaction and family background: encoding the situation; multidimentional aspects of language development; and constraints on language development.

There are twelve chapters on these themes contributed by leading researchers in this area.