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This Is A Comprehensive And Accessible Guide To The Methods Researchers Use To Study Child Language, Written By Experienced Scholars In The Study Of Language Development. [the Book] Presents A Comprehensive Survey Of Laboratory And Naturalistic Techniques Used In The Study Of Different Domains Of Language, Age Ranges, And Populations, And Explains The Questions Addressed By Each Technique ; Presents New Research Methods, Such As The Use Of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fnirs) To Study The Activity Of The Brain ; [and] Expands On More Traditional Research Methods Such As Collection, Transcription, And Coding Of Speech Samples That Have Been Transformed By New Hardware And Software.--publisher's Website. Habituation Procedures / Christopher T. Fennell -- Intermodal Preferential Looking / Janina Piotroski And Letitia R. Naigles -- The Looking-while-listening Procedure / Daniel Swingley -- Euroimaging Methods / Ioulia Kovelman -- Methods For Studying Languge In Infants : Back To The Future / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff And Kathryn Hirsh-pasek -- Assessing Phonological Knowledge / Cynthia Core -- Assessing Vocabulary Skills / Barbara Alexander Pan -- Assessing Grammatical Knowledge (with Special Reference To The Graded Grammaticality Judgment Paradigm) / Ben Ambridge -- Assessing Children's Narratives / Elaine Reese, Alison Sparks, And Sebastian Suggate -- Using Judgment Tasks To Study Language Knowledge / David A. Mckercher And Vikram K. Jaswal -- Using Priming Procedures With Children / Marina Vasilyeva, Heidi Waterfall, And Ligia Gómez -- Studying Language Processing Using Eye Movements / John C. Trueswell -- Recording, Transcribing, And Coding Interaction / Meredith L. Rowe -- Studying Gesture / Erica A. Cartmill [and Others] -- Dense Sampling / Elena Lieven And Heike Behrens -- Not Sampling, Getting It All / Letitia R. Naigles -- Approaches To Studying Language In Preschool Classrooms / David K. Dickinson -- Using The Childes Database / Roberta Corrigan -- C