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Publication details [#1500]

Bloom, Lois and Margaret Lahey. 1978. Language development and language disorders. J. Wiley. xii + 689 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

first language acquisition | language deficiency | speech act theory

Annotation

B. and L. present a view of language development (incorporating insights from speech act theory and other aspects of pragmatics) which they then go on to apply to a theory of how to facilitate language learning in children with language disorders.

Reviewed by

Garvey, Catherine. 1979. Review of $Language development and language disorders.