Milestones : Normal Speech and Language Development Across the Lifespan, Second Edition.
Oller, John W.
Milestones : Normal Speech and Language Development Across the Lifespan, Second Edition. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (623 pages)
Intro -- CHAPTER 1 Development Across the Life Span OBJECTIVES In studying this chapter you will: Discover key milestones of language development -- Consider how complex strings of words are built up -- Discuss how challenges in communication drive learners to higher levels -- Show how breakdowns can become persistent "communication disorders" -- and Consider why understanding normal development is prerequisite to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders. This book is about the sign system -- CHAPTER 2 Before and Just After Birth OBJECTIVES In this chapter you will: Consider evidence that the sensory-motor systems are developed and integrated before birth -- See evidence of consciousness, self-awareness, memory, emotions, and dreaming all before birth -- Discover that babies distinguish sounds, rhythms, and intonations of their native language before they are born -- Connect emotional expressions before and after birth with later sensory-motor, social, and linguistic development -- Explain t -- CHAPTER 3 Language Acquisition Theory OBJECTIVES In this chapter you will: Consider how iconic sign systems provide the semantic content for the child's first receptive and productive words -- Learn how infants discover the boundaries of objects (and persons) as well as facial expressions, and eventually words -- Explore the process of abstracting several levels of representations of bodily objects, persons, and their movements starting from perceptions -- Discuss why relations between entities and ab -- CHAPTER 4 Entities That Move and Talk OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Understand how infants learn to represent persons, movements, and vocalizations -- See how abstraction enables construction of indexical signs. Appreciate how the baby comes to know that its mom (or any singular entity) can only appear in one place at a time (excepting reflections) or that mom is still the same person when she appears in different locations at different times -- Discover how the normal infant, usuall -- CHAPTER 5 Working Up to a Receptive Vocabulary OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Explore the development of referential meaning from the earliest stages -- See the infant as a theoretician working out logical problems in acquiring speech forms -- Learn how the infant moves from vowel-like vocalizations to syllabic babbling and from babbling to the comprehension of meaningful words -- Revisit the controversy over innate capacities versus environmental influences -- Understand the logical posi -- CHAPTER 6 From "One Word" to Grammatical Strings OBJECTIVES In studying this chapter you will: Learn how and why the infant moves from receptive vocabulary to the production of an intelligible "first word" -- Understand why babble persists alongside the child's first productive meaningful words -- See why the receptive repertoire runs ahead of and exceeds productive vocabulary -- Discover how the child differentiates the symbol from its referent(s) -- Why the child shifts from acquiring new words to fig -- CHAPTER 7 Pragmatics and Literacy OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Discuss the fact that meaning must be grounded in pragmatic mapping -- Contrast facts with fictions, errors, lies, and nonsense -- Understand why comprehension begins with facts then fictions, errors, and, finally, lies -- Get to know the Gricean maxims and their implications for child language development -- Understand the limit of abstraction at maturity -- See why an infant can learn to understand printed words before sayin. CHAPTER 8 Meaning Outranks Surface-Form OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Discuss the fact that surface-forms serve meanings, not the other way around -- Discover why genuine transparency depends on the accessibility of meaning -- Understand why literacy requires much more than phonology and graphology -- See how all transitive relations can be expressed as chronological sequences -- Experience grammatical expectancies and cognitive momentum -- Explore ways that literacy is empowering and why -- CHAPTER 9 Different Languages, Dialects, and Cultures OBJECTIVES In studying this chapter you will: See why shared language/dialect systems and knowledge of culture are crucial to communication, teaching, and assessment of educational processes and outcomes -- Discuss how linguistic and cultural differences present obstacles to communication -- Be able to explain and identify characteristics of good testing and assessment procedures -- Realize why language/dialect differences are not the same as defic -- CHAPTER 10 Development in Relation to Disorders and Dissolution OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Discuss the theory of true narrative representations applied to disorders, diseases, and death -- Highlight professions that deal with injuries, disorders, and diseases affecting communication -- Define the 17 levels of the Milestones Scale of Development -- See how achievement can be delayed by genetic errors, physical injuries, diseases, poisons, and radiation that can have cumulative and ca.
9781597566797
Language acquisition.
Electronic books.
P118 -- .O434 2014eb
401.93
Milestones : Normal Speech and Language Development Across the Lifespan, Second Edition. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (623 pages)
Intro -- CHAPTER 1 Development Across the Life Span OBJECTIVES In studying this chapter you will: Discover key milestones of language development -- Consider how complex strings of words are built up -- Discuss how challenges in communication drive learners to higher levels -- Show how breakdowns can become persistent "communication disorders" -- and Consider why understanding normal development is prerequisite to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders. This book is about the sign system -- CHAPTER 2 Before and Just After Birth OBJECTIVES In this chapter you will: Consider evidence that the sensory-motor systems are developed and integrated before birth -- See evidence of consciousness, self-awareness, memory, emotions, and dreaming all before birth -- Discover that babies distinguish sounds, rhythms, and intonations of their native language before they are born -- Connect emotional expressions before and after birth with later sensory-motor, social, and linguistic development -- Explain t -- CHAPTER 3 Language Acquisition Theory OBJECTIVES In this chapter you will: Consider how iconic sign systems provide the semantic content for the child's first receptive and productive words -- Learn how infants discover the boundaries of objects (and persons) as well as facial expressions, and eventually words -- Explore the process of abstracting several levels of representations of bodily objects, persons, and their movements starting from perceptions -- Discuss why relations between entities and ab -- CHAPTER 4 Entities That Move and Talk OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Understand how infants learn to represent persons, movements, and vocalizations -- See how abstraction enables construction of indexical signs. Appreciate how the baby comes to know that its mom (or any singular entity) can only appear in one place at a time (excepting reflections) or that mom is still the same person when she appears in different locations at different times -- Discover how the normal infant, usuall -- CHAPTER 5 Working Up to a Receptive Vocabulary OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Explore the development of referential meaning from the earliest stages -- See the infant as a theoretician working out logical problems in acquiring speech forms -- Learn how the infant moves from vowel-like vocalizations to syllabic babbling and from babbling to the comprehension of meaningful words -- Revisit the controversy over innate capacities versus environmental influences -- Understand the logical posi -- CHAPTER 6 From "One Word" to Grammatical Strings OBJECTIVES In studying this chapter you will: Learn how and why the infant moves from receptive vocabulary to the production of an intelligible "first word" -- Understand why babble persists alongside the child's first productive meaningful words -- See why the receptive repertoire runs ahead of and exceeds productive vocabulary -- Discover how the child differentiates the symbol from its referent(s) -- Why the child shifts from acquiring new words to fig -- CHAPTER 7 Pragmatics and Literacy OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Discuss the fact that meaning must be grounded in pragmatic mapping -- Contrast facts with fictions, errors, lies, and nonsense -- Understand why comprehension begins with facts then fictions, errors, and, finally, lies -- Get to know the Gricean maxims and their implications for child language development -- Understand the limit of abstraction at maturity -- See why an infant can learn to understand printed words before sayin. CHAPTER 8 Meaning Outranks Surface-Form OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Discuss the fact that surface-forms serve meanings, not the other way around -- Discover why genuine transparency depends on the accessibility of meaning -- Understand why literacy requires much more than phonology and graphology -- See how all transitive relations can be expressed as chronological sequences -- Experience grammatical expectancies and cognitive momentum -- Explore ways that literacy is empowering and why -- CHAPTER 9 Different Languages, Dialects, and Cultures OBJECTIVES In studying this chapter you will: See why shared language/dialect systems and knowledge of culture are crucial to communication, teaching, and assessment of educational processes and outcomes -- Discuss how linguistic and cultural differences present obstacles to communication -- Be able to explain and identify characteristics of good testing and assessment procedures -- Realize why language/dialect differences are not the same as defic -- CHAPTER 10 Development in Relation to Disorders and Dissolution OBJECTIVES By studying this chapter you will: Discuss the theory of true narrative representations applied to disorders, diseases, and death -- Highlight professions that deal with injuries, disorders, and diseases affecting communication -- Define the 17 levels of the Milestones Scale of Development -- See how achievement can be delayed by genetic errors, physical injuries, diseases, poisons, and radiation that can have cumulative and ca.
9781597566797
Language acquisition.
Electronic books.
P118 -- .O434 2014eb
401.93