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Language Development Over the Lifespan

Kees de Bot | Robert W. Schrauf
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acquisition
Adult L2 Acquisition
Affective Facial Expression
applied language studies
Asl Sign
attrition
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Bilingual Aphasia
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Child L2 Acquisition
Child's Lexical Knowledge
Child’s Lexical Knowledge
Co-speech Gestures
cognitive development
Cross-language Generalization
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IL Grammar
impairment
L1 Acquisition
L1 Attrition
L2 Private Speech
Language Attrition
language processing
lifespan language acquisition research
Lifespan Perspective
Main Verb
memory
multilingualism research
neurocognitive linguistics
Non-representational Gestures
perspective
primary
Primary Language Impairment
private
Private Speech
psycholinguistics
Referential Shift
Relative Clauses
Representational Gestures
sign
Van Geert
Vice Versa
working
Working Memory

Product details

  • ISBN 9780805864601
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Feb 2009
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Language Development Over the Lifespan is a reference resource for those conducting research on language development and the aging process, and a supplementary textbook for courses in applied linguistics/bilingualism programs that focus on language attrition/aging and adult literacy development in second languages. It offers an integrative approach to language development that examines changes in language over a lifetime, organized by different theoretical perspectives, which are presented by well-known international scholars.
About Kees de Bot | Robert W. Schrauf

Kees de Bot is Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His research interests include foreign language attrition, language and dementia in multilingual settings, and more recently the application of Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA and multilingualism. He is coeditor of Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book (2005) and has published widely in the field of Applied Linguistics.

Robert W. Schrauf is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University in the United States. He conducts research in three main areas: bilingual autobiographical memory; language, culture, and cognitive aging; and applied linguistics and health sciences. He is president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology and associate editor of The Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology.

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