Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain
contribute experimental reports on language development of children who
are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in
acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and
bilingualism; typical development, children who are at risk and children
with language disorders, phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax. These
studies will inform linguistic theory development in clinical
linguistics as well as offer insights on how language works in relation
to cognitive functions that are associated with when children understand
or use language. The unique data from child language offer perspectives
that cannot be drawn from adult language. The first part is dedicated to
the acquisition of Spanish as a first or second language by
typically-developing children, the second part offers studies on
children who are at risk of language delays, and the third part focuses
on children with specific language impairment, disorders and syndromes.