Research methods in language acquisition: principles, procedures, and practices

Content: * Preface* Acknowledgments* Introduction* I. Fundamentals of Language Acquisition Research* The Challenge of Studying Language* Preparing to Work With Children, Schools, and Families* Creating the Data I: Working in Teams, Basic Data Collection, Data Sharing, and Data Management  II. Experimental and Observational Methods in Language Acquisitions Research* Studying Language Acquisition Through Collecting Speech* Introduction to Experimental Methods: Design and Analysis* Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Production Data* Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Comprehension DataThe Grammaticality Judgment Task* III. Managing and Interpreting Speech Data* Creating the Data II: Begin Data Processing* Creating the Data III: Preparing for Data Analysis* Interpreting the Data: Scientific Inference* IV. Special Considerations in Language Acquisition Research* Assessing Multilingual Acquisition* Introduction to Infant Testing Methods in Language Acquisition Research* Conclusions and Proceeding to the Future* Appendix A. Transcription Symbols* Appendix B. The International Phonetic Alphabet* Appendix C. Outline for Preparation of Schematic Research Proposal* Suggested Readings* References* Index