The territory -- Describing language -- Neurological bases of speech and language -- Cognitive, perceptual, and motor bases of early language and speech -- The social and communicative bases of early language and speech -- Language-learning and teaching processes and young children -- First words and word combinations in toddler talk -- Preschool pragmatic and semantic development -- Preschool development of language form -- Early school-age language development -- School-age literacy development -- Adolescent and adult language
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"There is no single way in which children learn to communicate. Each child follows an individual developmental pattern just as you did. Still, it is possible to describe a pattern of general communication development and of English specifically. This text attempts such descriptions and generalizations but emphasizes individual patterns, too