The Encyclopedia of Language Development covers the breadth of theory and research on language development from birth through adulthood, as well as their practical application.

Table of Contents

• List of Articles
• Reader's Guide
• About the General Editors
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Articles
• A
• Adjectives
• Adolescent Language Development and Use
• Adoption Studies of Second First-Language Acquisition
• Age of Acquisition Effects
• Alignment (Interactive)
• Apraxia of Speech, Childhood
• Argument Structure
• Aspect
• Assessment of Language Abilities
• Associative Processes
• Auditory Processing and Language Impairments
• Auditory Sequence/Artificial Grammar Learning
• Autism and Language Development
• Autobiographical Memory Role of Language
• Auxiliary and Modal Verbs
• B
• Baby Sign Systems
• Bayesian Inference in Word Learning
• Bilingual Language Development
• Bilingualism: Effects on Cognitive Development
• Bilingualism: Interactions Between Languages
• Brown, Roger
• Bruner, Jerome
• C
• Category-Based Induction
• Child Language Data Exchange System
• Child-Directed Speech (Effects of Variation in Quality)
• Child-Directed Speech (Features of)
• Chomsky, Noam
• Chunk-Based Language Acquisition
• Color Cognition and Language Development
• Computational Models of Language Development
• Conceptual Foundations of Early Word Learning
• Connectionist Models of Language Development
• Conversational Implicature
• Conversational Skills
• Corpus-Based Methods
• Critical Period in Language Development
• Cross-Cultural Factors in Communicative Development
• Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Language Impairments
• Cross-Linguistic Research on Literacy Development
• Cross-Modal Perception of Speech
• Cross-Situational Word Learning
• Cultural Learning
• D
• Developmental Dyslexia
• Diagnosing Language Impairments
• Diagnosing Reading Impairments
• Dialect Usage and Language Development
• Diminutives in Child-Directed and Child Speech
• Discourse-Pragmatics
• Distributional Knowledge and Language Learning
• Domain Specificity
• Dual-Route Model of Reading Development
• Dyadic Interaction and Early Communicative Development
• Dynamic Synchrony and Early Word Learning
• Dynamic Systems Theory and Language Development
• E
• Early Second Language Acquisition
• Early Word Learning
• Effects of Head Start Early Intervention on Language Development
• Effects of Schooling on Language Development
• Electrophysiology Methods in Language Development
• Emergentist Coalition Model of Word Learning
• Epistemic Markers
• Event Perception and Language Development
• Evidential Markers
• Evolutionary Perspectives on Language Development
• Executive Functions and Language Development/Processing
• F
• Fast Mapping in Lexical Development
• Filler Syllables and Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes
• Finite Verbs
• First Language Attrition and Loss in Bilinguals
• Focal Lesions and Language Development
• Frequency Effects in Language Development
• Functional Brain Imaging Methods in Language Development
• G
• Gender Differences in Language Development
• Generalization of Linguistic Patterns
• Generics
• Genetic Basis of Language Development and Impairment
• Genetic Syndromes and Language Development
• Gestures in Communicative Development (Overview)
• Grammatical Categories
• Grammatical Development in Children With Language Impairments
• Grammatical Gender
• Grammaticality Judgment Task
• H
• High-Amplitude Sucking Procedure
• Home Environment (Effects on Language and Literacy Development)
• Home Sign
• Humor
• Hyper-Articulation of Child-Directed Speech
• I
• Imitation in Communicative Development
• Individual Differences in Adult L1 Attainment
• Induction in Language Learning
• Interrelationship of Language and Cognitive Development (Overview)
• Intervention for Child Language Impairments
• Item-Based/Exemplar-Based Learning
• J
• Joint Attention and Language Development
• L
• Labeling Effects on Cognitive Development
• Language and Motor Interactions in Development
• Language Development in Children With Cochlear Implants
• Language Development in Deaf Children
• Language Development in Preterm Infants and Children
• Language Development in Twins
• Language for Reading
• Language Learning in Avians
• Language Learning in Cetaceans
• Language Learning in Dogs
• Language Learning in Nonhuman Primates
• Late Talkers
• Learning Words From Overheard Speech
• Less-Is-More Hypothesis
• Lexical Bootstrapping
• Lexical Development
• Lexical Innovations
• Linguistic Tonal Systems
• Literacy Effects on Cognitive Development
• Literacy Instruction Methods
• Long-Distance Dependencies
• Lying
• M
• MacArthur-Bates CDI
• Matthew Effects (Rich Get Richer)
• Mechanisms of Cultural Transmission and Language Learning
• Meta-Linguistic Awareness
• Metaphor
• Metrical Segmentation
• Milestones in Language Development
• Morphological Development
• Motion Expression
• Multiple Cues in Language Acquisition
• N
• Narrative Development
• Natural Pedagogy
• Neonatal Preference for Speech
• Neonatal Speech Perception
• Neural Basis of Language Development
• Nonliteral Language Use
• Noun Bias in Word Learning
• Numerical Cognition and Language Development
• O
• Otitis Media and Language Development
• Over-Extension and Under-Extension in Word Learning
• Over-Generalization of Grammatical Constructions
• Over-Regularization in Morphological Development
• P
• Parental Responsiveness and Scaffolding of Language Development
• Parsing/Sentence Processing
• Pediatric Audiology
• Perseveration and Speech Errors in Child Language Production
• Perspective Taking in Communication
• Phoneme Discrimination
• Phonological and Prosodic Bootstrapping
• Phonological Awareness
• Phonological Development
• Phonological Development in Children With Language Impairments
• Phonological Processes in Lexical Development
• Phonological Templates
• Play and Its Role in Language Development
• Pointing
• Pragmatic Development
• Prediction in Language Learning, Role of
• Preferential Looking/Head-Turn Preference Procedures
• Prelinguistic Vocalization (Overview)
• Principles-and-Parameters Framework
• Private Speech/Inner Speech
• Processing Deficits in Children With Language Impairments
• Pronouns
• Proto-Conversation and Song in Infant Communication
• Q
• Quantifiers
• Questions
• R
• Reading, Development of
• Reading Comprehension
• Recasts, Clarifications, and Other Indirect Negative Evidence
• Referential Communication
• Relational Terms
• S
• Semantic Development
• Semantic Development in Children With Language Impairments
• Shape Bias in Word Learning
• Sign Language Acquisition
• Slow Mapping in Lexical Development
• Social Conventions, Learning of
• Social Foundations of Communicative Development
• Social Functioning in Children With Language Impairments
• Social Shaping of Infant Vocalization
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Sound Symbolism
• Spatial Cognition and Language Development
• Specific Language Impairment (Overview)
• Speech Acts
• Speech Perception and Categorization
• Speech Processing
• Speech Prosody
• Speech Sounds, Articulation of
• Speech Variability (Infant Accommodation to)
• Spelling
• Spoken Word Recognition
• Spoken Word Retrieval and Word-Finding Difficulties
• Statistical Learning
• Statistical Pre-Emption
• Stuttering
• Symbol Formation
• Symbolic “Gesture Names”
• Syntactic Bootstrapping
• Syntactic Development: Construction Grammar Perspective
• Syntactic Development: Dependency Grammar Perspective
• Syntactic Development: Generative Grammar Perspective
• Syntactic/Structural Priming
• Syntax, Complex
• T
• Theory of Mind and Language Development
• Thinking for Speaking
• Twin Studies of Individual Differences
• U
• Universal Grammar
• V
• Verbal Working Memory
• Visual World Eye-Tracking Paradigm
• Vocabulary Growth
• Vocabulary Spurt
• Vocal Imitation
• Vygotsky, Lev
• W
• Williams Syndrome and Language Development
• Word Learning Constraints
• Word Learning Strategies
• Word Segmentation
• Word-to-World Mapping
• Written Discourse
• Wug Test and the Elicited Production Paradigm
• Glossary
• Resource Guide
• Appendix: World Literacy Statistics