Research Methods in Child Language (eBook)

A Practical Guide

Erika Hoff (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781444344011 (ISBN)

Infos

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development.

• Presents a comprehensive survey of laboratory and naturalistic techniques used in the study of different domains of language, age ranges, and populations, and explains the questions addressed by each technique
• Presents new research methods, such as the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study the activity of the brain
• Expands on more traditional research methods such as collection, transcription, and coding of speech samples that have been transformed by new hardware and software

Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Language Development, 4^th Edition (2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (2006).

Inhalt

List of Figures vii

List of Plates viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xv

Preface xvi

Part I Studying Infants and Others Using Nonverbal Methods
1

1 Habituation Procedures 3

Christopher T. Fennell

2 Intermodal Preferential Looking 17

Janina Piotroski and Letitia R. Naigles

3 The Looking-While-Listening Procedure 29

Daniel Swingley

4 Neuroimaging Methods 43

Ioulia Kovelman

5 Methods for Studying Language in Infants: Back to the Future
60

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek

Part II Assessing Language Knowledge and Processes in
Children Who Talk 77

6 Assessing Phonological Knowledge 79

Cynthia Core

7 Assessing Vocabulary Skills 100

Barbara Alexander Pan

8 Assessing Grammatical Knowledge (with Special Reference to the
Graded Grammaticality Judgment Paradigm) 113

Ben Ambridge

9 Assessing Children's Narratives 133

Elaine Reese, Alison Sparks, and Sebastian Suggate

10 Using Judgment Tasks to Study Language Knowledge 149

David A. McKercher and Vikram K. Jaswal

11 Using Priming Procedures with Children 162

Marina Vasilyeva, Heidi Waterfall, and Ligia Gómez

12 Studying Language Processing Using Eye Movements 177

John C. Trueswell

Part III Capturing Children's Language Experience and
Language Production 191

13 Recording, Transcribing, and Coding Interaction 193

Meredith L. Rowe

14 Studying Gesture 208

Erica A. Cartmill, Özlem Ece Demir, and Susan
Goldin-Meadow

15 Dense Sampling 226

Elena Lieven and Heike Behrens

16 Not Sampling, Getting It All 240

Letitia R. Naigles

17 Approaches to Studying Language in Preschool Classrooms
254

David K. Dickinson

18 Using the CHILDES Database 271

Roberta Corrigan

Part IV Studying Multiple Languages and Special Populations
285

19 Crosslinguistic Research 287

Aylin C. Küntay

20 Studying Children in Bilingual Environments 300

Erika Hoff and Rosario Luz Rumiche

21 Studying Children with Language Impairment 317

Karla K. McGregor

22 Studying the Language Development of Children with
Intellectual Disabilities 330

Leonard Abbeduto, Sara T. Kover, and Andrea McDuffie

Index 347

Rezensionen

"Furthermore, the information presented throughout the
book will be of immense benefits to an institution's library
or to a lecturer or supervisor to provide for their students and
researchers. Hence, Research Methods in Child Language is an
essential tool for all in the field of child language."
(Infant & Child Development, 1 January 2014)

"This book, though perhaps of limited use to individuals
interested to learn more about a single method of research, since
much of the book would therefore be irrelevant, will undoubtedly
prove to be an invaluable resource for an institution's
library or for a lecturer or supervisor to provide for their

students and researchers." (Linguist, 2 July
2012)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2011
• Reihe/Serie: GMLZ - Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
• Reihe/Serie: GMLZ - Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
• Reihe/Serie: Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Child Language • Kindersprache • language acquisition, language development, child development, child language, research methodology • Linguistics • Sprachwissenschaften
• ISBN-13: 9781444344011 / 9781444344011