Table of Contents

• The Territory
• Describing Language
• Neurological Bases of Speech and Language
• Cognitive, Perceptual and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech
• The Social and Communicative Bases of Early Language and Speech
• Language-Learning and Teaching Processes and Young Children
• First Words and Word Combinations in Toddler Talk
• Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development
• Preschool Development of Language Form
• Early School-Age Language Development
• School-Age Literacy Development
• Adolescent and Adult Language

Appendix A: American English Speech Sounds

Appendix B: Major Racial and Ethnic Dialects of American English

Appendix C: Development Summary

Appendix D: Computing MLU

Appendix E: Background Grammar

Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index