Child Language

By: No Information Available

Write A Review

Paperback | 22 June 1981

At a Glance

Paperback
204 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.19

Paperback

RRP $79.95

$78.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $19.69 with

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

The way children learn their native language has been the subject of intense and widespread investigation in the last decades, stimulated by advances in theoretical linguistics and the behavioural sciences. For the student, this has meant a bewildering number of research reports, often differing in their theoretical viewpoint and the methodological approach they advocate, and apparently conflicting in their conclusions. Child Language provides the student with a cool, clear and concise survey of the most important recent research work, and puts into perspective the contributions made by Chomsky, Piaget and others. The research surveyed, though primarily of English-speaking children, includes studies of children whose first language is not English and bilingual children. Dr Elliot believes that the study of child language necessarily raises questions about the nature of language - is human language something only humans can learn? - and about learning itself - how does our ability to learn language depend on biological factors, such as our age, and how important is our social and linguistic environment? Little justification is found for the view that language has an independent existence for the young child, and their linguistic achievements are studied within the context of their development in general.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Language Acquisition Psychology Child & Developmental Psychology

Introduction	p. 1
Mechanisms for language acquisition	p. 7
Chomsky's views on language acquisition	p. 7
Competence and creativity	p. 11
Primary linguistic data	p. 15
Language in chimpanzees	p. 17
Biological factors in language acquisition	p. 23
Learning and learning theory	p. 28
Language in the developing child	p. 37
Egocentric speech	p. 39
Piaget's views on language	p. 42
Piaget as an epistemologist	p. 42
Child's expressive language	p. 44
Child's understanding of language	p. 44
Universals and language variation	p. 47
Development of the concept	p. 48
Summary	p. 50
The cognition hypothesis	p. 51
Functional origins of language	p. 57
Development of the child's sound system	p. 62
Vocal productions and discriminations in infancy	p. 62
Early perception and production of phonemic distinctions	p. 68
Awareness of phonological structure	p. 75
Naturalistic studies of language acquisition	p. 78
Comprehension and production in child language	p. 80
The development of word meaning	p. 85
Holophrases	p. 90
Writing grammars for child language	p. 93
Semantic relations in two-word utterances	p. 99
Over the threshold	p. 102
The development of negation	p. 106
The development of questions	p. 107
Experimental studies of linguistic development	p. 110
Active and passive sentences	p. 114
'John is easy to see'	p. 121
Word order in other constructions	p. 124
Relational terms	p. 128
Dimensional adjectives	p. 129
'More' and 'less'	p. 131
'Same' and 'different'	p. 135
Locative prepositions	p. 138
Deixis and reference	p. 140
The communicative context of language acquisition	p. 149
Mothers' speech to children	p. 149
Language and social class	p. 163
Contextual variation in child speech	p. 168
Learning more than one language	p. 173
References	p. 176
Index	p. 191
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.

Child Language

At a Glance

Paperback

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Language Acquisition

Digital Gaming in the Language Classroom

Designing Effective Curricula

How Languages are Learned

5th Edition

Word Aware 3

Teaching Vocabulary in Small Groups for Ages 6 to 11

Second Language Research 3ed

Methodology and Design

Collins French Visual Dictionary

A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in French

Get Ready for IELTS Listening

(incl. Audio) Pre-Intermediate A2+ [Second Edition]

How to Kill a Language

A Story of Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words

Japanese Linguistics in Use

An Introduction for Language Learners

Language Development

Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

Language Testing and Assessment

From Theory to Practice

Harry's Story

A Picture Book to Raise Awareness of and Support Children with DLD

Syntactic and Pragmatic Features of Chinese-English Code-switching

Adult-Child Conversation

Second Language Learning Theories

Second Language Learning Theories

Sociological Perspectives on Foreign Language Education in Chinaâs Universities

Stratification, Governance, and Community

Multimodal Practices in Higher Education

Analyzing and Teaching Diverse Genres

Trends in the Acquisition of Portuguese Phonology

Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

Video-Mediated L2 Interaction

Conversation Analytic Research

The Fabrication of Traditional Language Teaching

Disfluencies We Live with in Japanese

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Multilingualism and Wellbeing

Foundations of Grammar

Beyond Standardized American English

Foundations of Grammar

Beyond Standardized American English

This product is categorised by