Milestones normal speech and language development across the life span - Oller, John W. (Plural Publishing, Inc., 2015)
Description based upon print version of record. - Chapter 9. Different Languages, Dialects, and Cultures
Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Development Across the Life Span; Objectives; Getting There Earlier Than Expected; Language Systems and Their Grammars; Intentional Actions Are Grammatical; Principles of Development; Common Ground: Where the Researchers Agree; You Can Make a Difference; Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Study and Discussion Questions; Chapter 2. Before and Just After Birth; Objectives; Actions Are Crucial to Development; The Integration of Sensation and Movement; Symbols: E motion, Memory, Imagination, and Language
Testing Sensation and Movement at BirthConnecting Language with Content; Innate Language Capacity or Just Biomechanics?; Cross-Modal Transfer and Integration of the Senses; Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Study and Discussion Questions; Chapter 3. Language Acquisition Theory; Objectives; Three Kinds of Work; Distinguishing Forms of Speech; Abstraction; Abstracted Signs Enrich Experience; Learning to Understand What You Don't Understand; Making A Critical Distinction; Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Study and Discussion Questions; Chapter 4. Entities That Move and Talk; Objectives
Coordinating MovementsSolving the Forms of Significant Movements; The "Nonverbal" Signs Needed for Words; The Surprising Problem of Identities; The Sign Cycle; The Iconic Cycle of Abstraction; The Indexical Cycle; Abstracting and Generalizing to the Hypostatic Index; Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Study and Discussion Questions; Chapter 5. Working Up to a Receptive Vocabulary; Objectives; Integrating the Nonverbal Signs with the Verbal; Levels of Reference and the Logical Positions of Discourse; Building Up to Tertiary Reference; The Infant Uses All Three Positions of Discourse
Indexes as the ConnectorsDiscriminating Linguistic Symbols; Gaining Motor Control of Surface-Forms; Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Study and Discussion Questions; Chapter 6. From "One Word" to Grammatical Strings; Objectives; Reviewing What's Already Been Achieved; Working Backward from the Goal; What's an Argument; The Growing Hierarchy of Sign Systems; Moving Beyond Zero Order Predicates; Zero Order Predicates Become Arguments; Meaningful Questions About Words Emerge; Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Study and Discussion Questions; Chapter 7. Pragmatics and Literacy; Objectives