Its scope has been expanded to account for a number of psycholinguistic processes involved in language acquisition, including arenas, cues, storage, chunking, codes, and resonance.
Her research spans over cross-linguistic studies of child language acquisition, speech and language discorders of young children, pragmatics and intercultural communication.
It contains sample databases from within several subfields of communication, including first language acquisition, second language acquisition, conversation analysis, classroom discourse, and aphasic language.
What was important for a behaviorist's analysis of human behavior was not language acquisition so much as the interaction between language and overt behavior.