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 technique
* Presents new research methods, such as the use of functional
Near Infrared Spectroscopy (f NIRS) to study the activity of the
brain
* Expands on more traditional research methods such as
collection, transcription, and coding of speech samples that have
been transformed by new hardware and software
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures vii
List of Plates viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Preface xvi
Part I Studying Infants and Others Using Nonverbal Methods
1
1 Habituation Procedures 3
Christopher T. Fennell
2 Intermodal Preferential Looking 17
Janina Piotroski and Letitia R. Naigles
3 The Looking-While-Listening Procedure 29
Daniel Swingley
4 Neuroimaging Methods 43
Ioulia Kovelman
5 Methods for Studying Language in Infants: Back to the Future
60
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek
Part II Assessing Language Knowledge and Processes in
Children Who Talk 77
6 Assessing Phonological Knowledge 79
Cynthia Core
7 Assessing Vocabulary Skills 100
Barbara Alexander Pan
8 Assessing Grammatical Knowledge (with Special Reference to the
Graded Grammaticality Judgment Paradigm) 113
Ben Ambridge
9 Assessing Children’s Narratives 133
Elaine Reese, Alison Sparks, and Sebastian Suggate
10 Using Judgment Tasks to Study Language Knowledge 149
David A. Mc Kercher and Vikram K. Jaswal
11 Using Priming Procedures with Children 162
Marina Vasilyeva, Heidi Waterfall, and Ligia Gómez
12 Studying Language Processing Using Eye Movements 177
John C. Trueswell
Part III Capturing Children’s Language Experience and
Language Production 191
13 Recording, Transcribing, and Coding Interaction 193
Meredith L. Rowe
14 Studying Gesture 208
Erica A. Cartmill, Özlem Ece Demir, and Susan
Goldin-Meadow
15 Dense Sampling 226
Elena Lieven and Heike Behrens
16 Not Sampling, Getting It All 240
Letitia R. Naigles
17 Approaches to Studying Language in Preschool Classrooms
254
David K. Dickinson
18 Using the CHILDES Database 271
Roberta Corrigan
Part IV Studying Multiple Languages and Special Populations
285
19 Crosslinguistic Research 287
Aylin C. Küntay
20 Studying Children in Bilingual Environments 300
Erika Hoff and Rosario Luz Rumiche
21 Studying Children with Language Impairment 317
Karla K. Mc Gregor
22 Studying the Language Development of Children with
Intellectual Disabilities 330
Leonard Abbeduto, Sara T. Kover, and Andrea Mc Duffie
Index 347
Über den Autor
Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Language Development, 4th Edition (2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (2006).
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