Publications on Language Development (General)

• Listed here are overviews or general treatments of language development. For specific studies of language onset in two modalities involving both typical children and those with developmental disorders such as Down syndrome, go to Early Signs and Words (Ages 1-3). For studies focused on older children, go to Relations between Language and Cognition (Ages 4-10) for typically developing children and Augmentative Communication for children with developmental disorders.
• Talks are listed only if there is no corresponding published report.

Abrahamsen, A. (1998). Cognitive and linguistic development. In W. Bechtel & G. Graham (Eds.), A companion to cognitive science (pp. 146-156). Oxford: Blackwell.

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1979, March). Developmental psycholinguistics: After the revolution. Invited address, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1977). Child language: An interdisciplinary guide to theory and research. Baltimore: University Park Press. (381 pages).

One of four core sources for the first electronic (1990) and print (Erlbaum, 1991) editions of R. Higginson & B. MacWhinney, CHILDES/BIB: An annotated bibliography of child language and language disorders; updated electronic editions available at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/html/bib.html.