Research Methods in Child Language

Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Language Development, 4th Edition (2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (2006).

“Furthermore, the information presented throughout the book will be of immense benefits to an institution‘s library or to a lecturer or supervisor to provide for their students and researchers.  Hence, Research Methods in Child Language is an essential tool for all in the field of child language.”  (Infant & Child Development, 1 January 2014)“This book, though perhaps of limited use to individuals interested to learn more about a single method of research, since much of the book would therefore be irrelevant, will undoubtedly prove to be an invaluable resource for an institution’s library or for a lecturer or supervisor to provide for theirstudents and researchers.”  (Linguist, 2 July 2012)

• List of Figures viiList of Plates viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xvPreface xviPart I Studying Infants and Others Using Nonverbal Methods 11 Habituation Procedures 3Christopher T. Fennell2 Intermodal Preferential Looking 17Janina Piotroski and Letitia R. Naigles3 The Looking-While-Listening Procedure 29Daniel Swingley4 Neuroimaging Methods 43Ioulia Kovelman5 Methods for Studying Language in Infants: Back to the Future 60Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsh-PasekPart II Assessing Language Knowledge and Processes in Children Who Talk 776 Assessing Phonological Knowledge 79Cynthia Core7 Assessing Vocabulary Skills 100Barbara Alexander Pan8 Assessing Grammatical Knowledge (with Special Reference to the Graded Grammaticality Judgment Paradigm) 113Ben Ambridge9 Assessing Children’s Narratives 133Elaine Reese, Alison Sparks, and Sebastian Suggate10 Using Judgment Tasks to Study Language Knowledge 149David A. McKercher and Vikram K. Jaswal11 Using Priming Procedures with Children 162Marina Vasilyeva, Heidi Waterfall, and Ligia Gómez12 Studying Language Processing Using Eye Movements 177John C. TrueswellPart III Capturing Children’s Language Experience and Language Production 19113 Recording, Transcribing, and Coding Interaction 193Meredith L. Rowe14 Studying Gesture 208Erica A. Cartmill, Özlem Ece Demir, and Susan Goldin-Meadow15 Dense Sampling 226Elena Lieven and Heike Behrens16 Not Sampling, Getting It All 240Letitia R. Naigles17 Approaches to Studying Language in Preschool Classrooms 254David K. Dickinson18 Using the CHILDES Database 271Roberta CorriganPart IV Studying Multiple Languages and Special Populations 28519 Crosslinguistic Research 287Aylin C. Küntay20 Studying Children in Bilingual Environments 300Erika Hoff and Rosario Luz Rumiche21 Studying Children with Language Impairment 317Karla K. McGregor22 Studying the Language Development of Children with Intellectual Disabilities 330Leonard Abbeduto, Sara T. Kover, and Andrea McDuffieIndex 347