Table of Contents

1. The Territory
2. Describing Language
3. Neurological Bases of Speech and Language
4. Cognitive, Perceptual and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech
5. The Social and Communicative Bases of Early Language and Speech
6. Language-Learning and Teaching Processes and Young Children
7. First Words and Word Combinations in Toddler Talk
8. Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development
9. Preschool Development of Language Form
10. Early School-Age Language Development
11. School-Age Literacy Development
12. Adolescent and Adult Language
13. Appendix A: American English Speech Sounds
14. Appendix B: Major Racial and Ethnic Dialects of American English
15. Appendix C: Development Summary
16. Appendix D: Computing MLU
17. Appendix E: Background Grammar
18. Glossary
19. References
20. Author Index
21. Subject Index