Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments
This book gives an account of developmental language impairment from the perspective of language evolution. Components of language acquisition and specific language impairments can be mapped to stages in the evolutionary trajectory of language. Lian argue
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Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments
Arild Lian
Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments
Arild Lian University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
ISBN 978-1-137-58745-9 ISBN 978-1-137-58746-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58746-6
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Acknowledgments
This book is the result of notes I have taken and discussions I have had with colleagues and friends after my retirement from the University of Oslo, and during the years that I worked as a volunteer at Bredtvet Resource Center (the Norwegian national resource center for special education, located in Oslo). By interacting closely with special education psychologists and therapists in this institution, I gained first hand experience of children with developmental language impairments and those with special educational needs. Among the many psychologists I worked with at this center, Ernst Ottem is responsible for part of my education in the field of speech and language disorders, and also became a source of inspiration for the present work. I express my sincere gratitude for his role in my professional development in recent years! I also express my thanks to Dr. Arnold Glass at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, who read and returned very instructive comments on a previous version of the manuscript. I also thank Dr. Glass for inspiring cooperative research works that served to strengthen my general academic development. In a different area of my work, I received general advice and important assistance in formatting and editing my files from Be
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