Language Disorders Arena

Infant Pathways to Language

Methods, Models, and Research Directions

• Edited by John Colombo, Peggy McCardle and Lisa Freund.

Published October 2008

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function. The contributors to…
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Handbook of Child Language Disorders

• Edited by Richard G. Schwartz.

Published September 2008

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and remediation of language disorders in children. The book includes chapters focusing on specific groups of childhood…
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Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia

• By Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, Pascale Colé and Willy Serniclaes.

Published October 2006

Most studies on reading have been conducted with English-speaking subjects. It is crucial to also examine studies conducted in different languages, in order to highlight which aspects of reading acquisition and dyslexia appear to be language-specific, and which are universal. Reading Acquisition…
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Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspective

Essays in Honor of Robin S. Chapman

• Edited by Rhea Paul.

Published September 2006

The last 25 years have witnessed an explosion of research at the intersection of typical language development and child language disorders. A pioneer in bringing these fields of study together is Robin S. Chapman, Emerita, University of Wisconsin. This contributed volume honors her with chapters…
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Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

Four Cornerstones

• Edited by Anne Cutler.

Published June 2005

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence.…
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Beyond Nature-Nurture

Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates

• Edited by Michael Tomasello, and Dan Isaac Slobin.

Published August 2004

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature;…
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Developmental Language Disorders

From Phenotypes to Etiologies

• Edited by Mabel L. Rice, and Steven F. Warren.

Published June 2004

Developmental Language Disorders: From Phenotypes to Etiologies is based on the recent conference of the same name sponsored by the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas. In the past 10 years, considerable advances have taken place in our understanding of genetic and…
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Mind, Brain, and Language

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

• Edited by Marie T. Banich, and Molly Mack.

Published May 2003

Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines. This development is well demonstrated in this important and unique volume, which offers a multidisciplinary view of current findings and cutting-edge issues involving the…
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Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

• Edited by Karen Emmorey.

Published February 2003

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and…
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The New Psychology of Language

Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

• Edited by Michael Tomasello.

Published October 2002

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and…
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