目录 Preface to the third edition Why we wrote this book Who the book is for What the book does What the book doesn't do The second edition The third edition Acknowledgments International Phonetic Alphabet 1 Introduction: starting on the right foot Choosing an area Getting organized Using resources Being a researcher Theory-only projects Setting up data-based research Being streetwise: keeping on the right side of your assessor Part I Areas of Study and Project Ideas 2 Psycholinguistics Textbooks and major journals Central themes and project ideas How psycholinguists conceptualize language How we understand language Psycholinguistics and grammatical theory Lexical and structural ambiguity How we produce spoken language How we produce writing Language and thought 3 First-language acquisition and development Approaches to research Terminology Textbooks and major journals The CHILDES database Things to think about Central themes and project ideas Longitudinal case studies Prelinguistic development Over- and under-extension: lexical and semantic development Children's morphology Development of phonology and intonation Comprehension of complex grammatical structures Children's metalinguistic awareness Colour terms Carer language (or child-directed speech) Conversational development Sources of variation in child language Literacy development Developmental problems Later language acquisition
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