TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owens,Robert E.
TI  - Language development: an introduction 
SN  - 9780135206485
AV  - P118 .O93 2019
U1  - 401.93 OWE 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - [Hoboken, New Jersey]
PB  - Pearson Education, Inc.
KW  - Language acquisition
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The territory -- Describing language -- Neurological bases of speech and language -- Cognitive, perceptual, and motor bases of early language and speech -- The social and communicative bases of early language and speech -- Language-learning and teaching processes and young children -- First words and word combinations in toddler talk -- Preschool pragmatic and semantic development -- Preschool development of language form -- Early school-age language development -- School-age literacy development -- Adolescent and adult language
N2  - "There is no single way in which children learn to communicate. Each child follows an individual developmental pattern just as you did. Still, it is possible to describe a pattern of general communication development and of English specifically. This text attempts such descriptions and generalizations but emphasizes individual patterns, too"--
ER  -