Language Development in the Pre-School Years

Introduction 1. Setting up the research 2. Describing child speech in its conversational context 3. Some general characteristics of the data from the naturalisitic observations 4. The sequence of emergence of certain semantic and pragmatic systems 5. The sequence of emergence: syntax and its relationship with other levels of analysis 6. The pattern of development over time 7. The children and their families 8. Variation in language development 9. the role of the input in language development 10. Learning through interaction Appendices Notes References Index.