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Peer reviewedSchwanenflugel, Paula J.; Noyes, Caroline R. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1996
Reviews book on the current state of psychological semantics for researchers in language development. Notes points of agreement among contributors, including: study of semantics has been too oriented toward substance nouns; assigning novel words to real objects or events is more difficult using verbs than nouns; and syntax is more integrally…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Nouns
Peer reviewedMacWhinney, Brian – Developmental Review, 1999
Reviews textbook which focuses on disorders of language processing that can be viewed as generated by specific language impairments (SLI). Highlights the book's examination of root causes which may contribute to developmental language disorders for all components of language processing, as well as the interaction between the disorders. Finds the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Book Reviews, Hearing (Physiology), Language Acquisition
