Research methods in child language: a practical guide
by Hoff, Erika
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 techniquePresents new research methods, such as the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study the activity o…
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- Full title :Research methods in child language : a practical guide / edited by Erika Hoff.
Summary
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 techniquePresents new research methods, such as the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study the activity of the brainExpands on more traditional research methods such as collection, transcription, and coding.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 362 pages, [4] pages of color plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781444344035, 144434403X, 1444344005, 9781444344004
- oclc:ocn756280825
- LC Classification:P118.3
- Dewey Decimal:401/.93
Table of Contents
Preface; Part I. Studying Infants and Others Using Nonverbal Methods; 1. Habituation Procedures; 2. Intermodal Preferential Looking; 3. The Looking-While-Listening Procedure; 4. Neuroimaging Methods; 5. Methods for Studying Language in Infants: Back to the Future; Part II. Assessing Language Knowledge and Processes in Children Who Talk; 6. Assessing Phonological Knowledge; 7. Assessing Vocabulary Skills ; 8. Assessing Grammatical Knowledge (with Special Reference to the Graded Grammaticality Judgment Paradigm); 9. Assessing Children’s Narratives; 10. Using Judgment Tasks to Study Language Knowledge
11. Using Priming Procedures with Children; 12. Studying Language Processing Using Eye Movements; Part III. Capturing Children’s Language Experience and Language Production; 13. Recording, Transcribing, and Coding Interaction; 14. Studying Gesture; 15. Dense Sampling; 16. Not Sampling, Getting It All; 17. Approaches to Studying Language in Preschool Classrooms; 18. Using the CHILDES Database; Part IV. Studying Multiple Languages and Special Populations; 19. Crosslinguistic Research; 20. Studying Children in Bilingual Environments; 21. Studying Children with Language Impairment; 22. Stu…
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