Children's Language

"The entire volume is a pleasure to read. It is also very informative as suggested by the appended 600 name and over 500 subject indices."—The Phonetician"The editors, Nelson and Réger, have done an excellent job of selecting and editing the papers. The volume is well-presented....Scholars and postgraduate students interested in child language should find selected readings from this volume extremely useful."—British Journal of Developmental Psychology

• Contents: Preface. C. Lléo, Insights Into Early Second Language Phonological Acquisition: From Transfer and Developmental Processes to a Nonlinear Principles-and-Parameters View. A. Jarovinskij, On Bilingual Socialization. C. Holmlund, Development of Turntakings as a Sensorimotor Process in the First 3 Months: A Sequential Analysis. L. French, M.K. Pak, Young Children's Play Dialogues With Mothers and Peers. A. Ninio, Expression of Communicative Intents in the Single-Word Period and the Vocabulary Spurt. D. Poulin-Dubois, Object Parts and the Acquisition of the Meaning of Names. A. Martini, C. Di Turo, F. Tomaiuolo, Phonological Awareness and the Alphabetic System: From Kindergarten to First Grade. G.J. van der Lem, D.E. Timmerman, Joint Picture Book Reading in Signs: An Interaction Process Between Parent and Deaf Child. M. Harris, J. Beech, Reading Development in Prelingually Deaf Children. M. Przetacznik-Gierowska, Functions of Resultative Coordinate Constructions in Early Language and Logical Development: Insights From Children's Acquisition of Polish. L.M. Sicuro Correâ, The Relative Difficulty of Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses: A Procedural Account. P. Cipriani, A.M. Chilosi, P. Bottari, Language Acquisition and Language Recovery in Developmental Dysphasia and Acquired Childhood Aphasia.