Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-speaking Children [Paperback]

Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and bilingualism; typical development, children who are at risk and children with language disorders, phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax. These studies will inform linguistic theory development in clinical linguistics as well as offer insights on how language works in relation to cognitive functions that are associated with when children understand or use language. The unique data from child language offer perspectives that cannot be drawn from adult language. The first part is dedicated to the acquisition of Spanish as a first or second language by typically-developing children, the second part offers studies on children who are at risk of language delays, and the third part focuses on children with specific language impairment, disorders and syndromes.

PART I: TYPICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN.- Typical Language development of monolingual Spanish-speaking children by Sonia Mariscal & Alejandra Auza Benavides.- Language development in bilingual Spanish-Catalan children with and without Specific Language Impairment: A longitudinal perspective by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucia Buil-Legaz, Ra?l L?pez-Penad?s & Daniel Adrover-Roig.- Bilingual and monolingual childrens patterns of syntactic variation: Variable clitic placement in Spanish by Naomi L. Shin, Pablo E. Requena, & Anita Kemp.- PART II: CHILDREN AT RISK OF LANGUAGE DISORDERS.- Executive functions and language development in preterm and full-term children by Miguel P?rez-Pereira, Manuel Peralbo & Alberto Veleiro.- Processing speed on infants with high and low communicative skills by Elda Alicia Alva Canto & Paloma Su?rez Brito.- Relevance of family psychosocilC6