Klappentext In this book Gordon Wells presents a detailed account of the language development of children aged one to five years. Zusammenfassung The Bristol Study of Language Development has assembled a corpus of data on the language development of children aged one to five years and of the situations in which their spontaneous speech was recorded. In this book Gordon Wells presents a detailed account of the common sequence of development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Setting up the research; 2. Describing child speech in its conversational context; 3. Some general characteristics of the data from the naturalisitic observations; 4. The sequence of emergence of certain semantic and pragmatic systems; 5. The sequence of emergence: syntax and its relationship with other levels of analysis; 6. The pattern of development over time; 7. The children and their families; 8. Variation in language development; 9. the role of the input in language development; 10. Learning through interaction; Appendices; Notes; References; Index.

Zusammenfassung
The Bristol Study of Language Development has assembled a corpus of data on the language development of children aged one to five years and of the situations in which their spontaneous speech was recorded. In this book Gordon Wells presents a detailed account of the common sequence of development.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Setting up the research; 2. Describing child speech in its conversational context; 3. Some general characteristics of the data from the naturalisitic observations; 4. The sequence of emergence of certain semantic and pragmatic systems; 5. The sequence of emergence: syntax and its relationship with other levels of analysis; 6. The pattern of development over time; 7. The children and their families; 8. Variation in language development; 9. the role of the input in language development; 10. Learning through interaction; Appendices; Notes; References; Index.