Preface 1. Talking About the There and Then: The Emergence of Displaced Reference in Parent-Child Discourse 2. Saying It Again: The Role of Expanded and Deferred Imitations in Language Acquisition 3. Names, Gestures, and Objects: Symbolization in Infancy and Aphasia 4. Perceptual Constraints on the Use of Language by Young Children 5. Getting Others to Do What You Want Them to Do: Development of Children’s Requestive Strategies 6. Mother-Child Language in the Natural Environment 7. The Role of Play in Phonological Development 8. Cognitive Aspects of Phonological Development: Model, Evidence, and Issues 9. Language Acquisition in a Deaf Child of Deaf Parents: Speech, Sign Variations, and Print Variations 10. What Do You Do if You Can’t Tell the Whole Story? The Development of Summarization Skills 11. Developmental Differences in Schemata for Story Comprehension 12. Developmental Language Studies in the Neuropsychiatric Disorders of Childhood
Keith .E. Nelson The Pennsylvania State University