Born to Talk: An Introduction to Speech and Language Development

by Kathleen R. Fahey, Lloyd M. Hulit, Merle R. Howard

In a new fifth edition that offers exciting expansions and updates, Born To Talk continues to provide college students of all levels with a contemporary and comprehensive view of speech and language development in a reader-friendly and interactive manner. Structured to reflect the actual development of language in a child, this engaging text introduces readers to research-based information on the nature of human communication, theories of language and cognitive development, the anatomy and physiology of speech, milestones of language and literacy, cultural and linguistic diversity in language acquisition, and speech and language disorders. The new revised fifth edition of Born To Talk includes up-to-date research on the impact of parent-child interactions, language samples from one child across the first three years, and emergent literacy in preschool. The revision also expands on the acquisition of the sound system and brings an integrated perspective of childhood language disorders through case examples.

Genres: Linguistics, Textbooks, Psychology

480 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

Reviews

[Damien A.]

Old college book. Taught me human development

[Alixandra Johnson]

Awful textbook.

That being said this is a huge improvement from the previous edition. the 3rd and 4th editions deliberately misquoted source material. That has been fixed in the 6th edition. However, the disorganization and sloppy writing style is still intact.

Please get your poop in a group Lloyd M Hulit, Kathleen R Faheyand Merle R Howard. Paying $80 for this junk is not my idea of money well spent.

[Janel]

I get to read this book for my Language Development class.