{"title":"Research in Later Language Development: A Historical Perspective.","authors":"Marilyn Nippold","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100658","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have investigated later language development for more than 80 years. As a result, a great deal of information has been learned about the nature and substance of language development beyond the preschool years. This article highlights topics that were studied each decade, beginning with the 1940s and continuing to the present. Understanding the history of research in this area is essential for current investigators who seek to contribute new information to the discipline and for clinicians and teachers who seek to apply the information that has already been learned in their daily work with school-age children, adolescents, or young adults.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"84 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Child Language","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100658","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Researchers have investigated later language development for more than 80 years. As a result, a great deal of information has been learned about the nature and substance of language development beyond the preschool years. This article highlights topics that were studied each decade, beginning with the 1940s and continuing to the present. Understanding the history of research in this area is essential for current investigators who seek to contribute new information to the discipline and for clinicians and teachers who seek to apply the information that has already been learned in their daily work with school-age children, adolescents, or young adults.
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A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. The international range of authors and breadth of coverage allow the journal to forge links between many different areas of research including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach spans a wide range of interests: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, or any other recognised facet of language study.