An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing

by Lisa M. Bedore and Barbara L. Davis

Book Overview

The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech. A child's acquisition of phonology is seen as a product of her physical and social interaction capacities supported by input from adult models about ambient language sound patterns. Acquisition of phonological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848726546
• ISBN13: 9781848726543
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"