Withdrawing
from Class: October
29, 1999 is the last day to withdraw
without instructor approval.November
19, 1999 is the last day to withdraw with departmental
approval (obtained via the instructor). If you attend class, even once,
and stop coming to class without withdrawing, you will receive a grade
of F.
Students with special needs:
Please see me if you have a disability that may require some modification
of the seating, testing or other class requirements so that appropriate
arrangements may be made. Also, call Disabled Students Services at 725-4150
or TDD 725- 6504. I will work with you to arrange needed supports.
Supplemental Readings.
These will be in a course packet and on reserve at the library.
Supplement #1: Child-directed-speech
Lieven,
Elena V.M.(1994). Crosslinguistic
and cross-cultural aspects of language addressed to children.In Gallaway,
C. & Richards, B.J. Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition.
(pp. 56-73). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. P118.5
.I56 1994
Supplement #2: Infant Speech
Perception
Jusczyk,
Peter (1997) The Discovery of Spoken Language, ch.
4: How Speech Perception Develops during the First Year (pp. 73-110). Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press. BF720 .S67 J87 1997
Supplement #3: Early Syntax
and Morphology
Gleitman, Lila & Henry Gleitman
(1992) "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, but That's
the Problem: The Role of Syntax in Vocabulary Acquisition," in Barbara
Lust, M. Suñer and J. Whitman (eds.)
Syntactic
Theory and First Language Acquisition. (pp. 291-300). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum. P118 .S937 1994
Supplement #4: Pragmatic
Development
Foster, Susan H. (1990). The
communicative competence of young children. Longman: New York.,
pp. 111-129: Pragmatic Development in the Linguistic Stage. P118.4 .F6
1990
Supplement #5: Narrative
Development and Relationship to Literacy
Michaels, S. (1986). Narrative
presentations: An oral preparation for literacy with first graders. In
J. Cook-Gumperz (Ed.), The
social construction of literacy (pp. 94-116). Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity
Press. P40 .S53 1986
Supplement #6: Critical Period
Mayberry, Rachel (1994). The
importance of childhood to language acquisition. In J. Goodman & H..Nusbaum.
(eds). The Development
of Speech Perception (pp. 57-90). Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press. P118 .D46 1994
Recommended Supplemental Readings
(These are on reserve only)
Adams,
M.J. (1990). Beginning to read : thinking
and learning about print. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press. LB1050 .A258 1990 An review
of the phonics vs. whole language debate and a good introduction to the
various skills necessary for sucessful reading.
Clark,
E.V. (1993) The lexicon in acquisition.Cambridge, England: Cambridge
University Press P118 .C548 1993An overview
of her life's work on the acquisition of the lexicon. Covers early to late
lexicon and discusses the acquisition of the lexicon in several language
families in addition to English (Romance, Germanic and Hebrew, I believe.)
Dromi,
E. (Ed.) (1983). Language and cognition :
a developmental perspective. P118 .L2558 1993
Fletcher,
P. & Garman M. (Eds.) (1986). Language acquisition
: studies in first language development. New
York:CambridgeU.
Press. P118 .L254 1986 An older textbook
that nonetheless has some good information on basic language development.Goes
more in depth into some issues than our text does. Good reference
for determining which primary sources to look for.
Fletcher,
P. & MacWhinney, B. (1995).The
Handbook of child language.Cambridge, MA:
Blackwell. P118 .H347 1995 Good overview
of many of the areas of child language acquisition. More theoretical
and more detailed than textbook, so it makes a good complement to specific
areas. A good first step for more information about
any topic; especially good info on early lexical development.
Golinkoff,
R. Hirsh-Pasek, K., Hollebrandse,
G. (2000). Becoming a word learner: a debate on
lexical acquisition.Monographs of the Society
for Research in Child Development.P118 .B424
2000 A state of the art overview of the different theories oon
early word learning.
Gombert,
Jean Emile. (1992). Metalinguistic
development.University
of Chicago
Press.P118.3 .G6 1992 Good overview
of all of the aspects of metalinguistic
development, from metaphonological to metapragamtic.
Good resource if your project involves metalinguistic
skills.
Harris, M.andHatano,
G. (Eds.) (1999). Learning to read and write :
a cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity
Press. P118 .L3899 1999 A series of articles
on learning to read in various languages and scripts.
MacWhinney,
Brian (1995). The CHILDES project : tools
for analyzing talk. Hillsdale, NJ:Lawrence
Erlbaum. LB1139 .L3 M24 1995 Handbook for CHILDES project; gives
information on how to search and information on databases. Note: Database
list not completely accurate; they've added databases since this
was published. For the most up-to-date info see the website.
Menn,
L. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2000). Methods
for Studying Language Production.MIT Press.P118
.B424 2000 A very nice summary of
possible methods for collecting data, including background on methods,
factors to take into consideration when designing and some examples. Includes
both eliciting speech and collecting naturalistic data from a range of
populations (child, adult L2, individuals with language disorders).
Ritchie, W.
& Bhatia, T. (1999) Handbook of child language acquisition.
San Diego: Academic Press P118 .H348 1999. Nice discussion of
theories and some methods in child language acquisition.
Romaine, S.
(1995).Bilingualism, 2nd Edition.
Ch. 5: The Bilingual Child, Oxford, UK: Blackwell.P115 .R58 1995 Good
overview of various ways of achieving childhoodbilingualism,
plus an overview of some of the literature.
Slobin,
D. (1985). The Crosslinguistic
study of language acquisition. Hillsdale, N.J.
: L. Erlbaum Associates, c1985-1997 P118 .C69 1985, VOLUMES 1,
2, 3, 4 AND 5 Provides information on the acquisition of various
languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. Nice
to compare acquisition of English with. Good resource if your project
is on a language other than English.
Taylor, O.
& Leonard, L. (Eds.) (1999). Language acquisition across North America
: cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives. San
Diego: Singular Publishing.P118 .L2338 1999A
textbook covering basic language introduction, but also covering African
American English, Spanish and Inuktitut.