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3) This is baby
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's The Tonight Show and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA and Everything Is Mama, returns with a book that teaches new babies the words for the various parts of their body--This is Baby."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
''Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. "A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language." —New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück “Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Two separate studies of children who are exceptionally bright, and at the same time exceptionally late in beginning to speak, provide the background for the dramatic story of these children and their often anguished parents. Although such children have begun to be studied only within the past decade, numerous examples have turned up across the United States and overseas.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Language
English
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Everything is . . .MAMA!Jimmy Fallon, one of the most popular entertainers in the world and NBC's Tonight Show host, was on a mission with his first children's book to have every baby's first word be DADA. And it worked! A lot of babies' first words were DADA. However, everything after that was MAMA.So take a lighthearted look at the world from your baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An essential guide to language development, from babbling to first words to full sentences, plus early signs of anxiety, autism, or ADHD"--
"Help your little one overcome childhood speech delay—with expert guidance and simple strategies you can use at home! For parents of young children, speech milestones are monumental—from baby babble to first words to full sentences. It’s natural to worry when they don’t arrive “on schedule” or when...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Give your child the gift of conversation with Small Talk! You are your child's most valuable resource when it comes to learning to talk. In Small Talk, speech and language therapist Nicola Lathey and parenting journalist Tracey Blake demystify the six stages of language learning, from "Pre-Babble" to "Complete Sentences," so you can tune in to what your child is saying―or trying to say! You'll also learn: • Why the babbling stage is so important...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture spurred by Lydia Denworth's discovery that her son couldn't hear her lullabies and the family's life-altering decision to give him a cochlear implant. Lydia Denworth's third son, Alex, was almost two when he was diagnosed with profound and progressive hearing loss. As both a science writer and the mother of young children,...
Series
Publisher
Two little hands Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Teaches American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Introduces the signs for the alphabet and includes more than 50 signs for words corresponding to different letters.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Leading Latino artists, entertainers, politicians, authors, and athletes explain how they each dealt with the challenges and intricacies of learning the English language, including Congressman José Serrano and writer Oscar Hijuelos.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for...
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