Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Speech Bases
5. Opening quote 9
6. Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Languages 11
7. Prenatal Familiarization 31
8. Initial Equipment for Speech Perception 45
9. Target-Language Influences on Prespeech 57
10. Prosodic Cues in Very Young Children's Speech 73
11. Basic Discourse Capacities
12. Opening quote 89
13. Cohesion: Syntactic Organization Leading to Discourse
14. Opening quote 91
15. Verbs as Sentence Organizers 93
16. Pronoun Assignment in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous Sentences 109
17. Conjunctions 125
18. Children’s Production of Textual Organizers 143
19. The Development of Discourse Cohesion 157
20. Coherence: Language as it Underlies and Organizes Knowledge
21. Opening quote 187
22. An Opaque Text as a Mobilizer of Knowledge 189
23. The Development and Role of Narrative Schema Storytelling 209
24. Stories A Psycholinguistic and Ontogenetic Approach to the Acquisition of Narrative Abilities 229
25. The Development of Argumentative Discourse 245
26. References 269
27. Index 335