Language Perspectives: Acquisition, Retardation, and Intervention - Hardcover

Infant speech perception : a preliminary model and review of the literature / Philip A. Morse -- Linguistic processing of speech by young infants / Peter D. Eimas -- Discussion summary : infant reception research / Earl C. Butterfield and George F. Cairns -- Some aspects of the conceptual basis for first language acquisition / Eve V. Clark -- Relational concepts underlying language / I.M. Schlesinger -- From signal to sign : a Piagetian view of thought and language during the first two years / Donald M. Morehead and Ann Morehead -- Discussion summary : development of concepts underlying language / Melissa F. Bowerman -- Early development of receptive language : from babbling to words / Paula Menyuk -- Receptive language in the mentally retarded : processes and diagnostic distinctions / Richard F. Cromer -- Discussion summary : development of receptive language / Joseph E. Spradlin -- Talking, understanding, and thinking / Lois Bloom -- The relationship between comprehension and production / David Ingram -- Discussion summary : developmental relationship between receptive and expressive language / Robin S. Chapman -- Teaching visual language to apes and language-deficient persons / David Premack and Ann James Premack -- Nonvocal systems of verbal behavior / Donald F. Moores -- Discussion summary : nonspeech communication / Richard B. Dever -- An early language training strategy / William A. Bricker and Diane D. Bricker -- Infant intervention and language learning / Kathryn Barth Horton -- Discussion summary : early language intervention / Lawrence J. Turton -- An ontogenetic language teaching strategy for retarded children / Jon F. Miller and David E. Yoder -- To teach language to retarded children / Doug Guess, Wayne Sailor, and Donald M. Baer -- Issues in language training / Kenneth F. Ruder and Michael D. Smith -- Discussion summary : language intervention for the mentally retarded / Barbara Bateman --