Erika Hoff 
Research Methods in Child Language [EPUB ebook] 
A Practical Guide

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

Inhoudsopgave

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

Over de auteur

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).