Erika Hoff is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Language Development, 4^th Edition (2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (2006).

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.
* 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
* Expands on more traditional research methods such as collection, transcription, and coding of speech samples that have been transformed by new hardware and software

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Section 1: Studying infants and others using nonverbal methods
Section 2: Assessing language knowledge and processes in children who talk
Section 3: Capturing children's language experience and language production
Section 4: Studying Multiple Languages and Special Populations