First Language Acquisition

Method, Description and Explanation

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Paperback | 6 November 1989

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This major textbook, setting new standards of clarity and comprehensiveness, will be welcomed by all serious students of first language acquisition. Written from a linguistic perspective, it provides detailed accounts of the development of children's receptive and productive abilities in all the core areas of language - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. With a critical acuity drawn from long experience, and without attempting to offer a survey of all the huge mass of child language literature, David Ingram directs students to the fundamental studies and sets these in broad perspective. Students are thereby introduced to the history of the field and the current state of our knowledge in respect of three main themes: method, description and explanation. Whilst the descriptive facts that are currently available on first language acquisition are central to the book, its emphasis on methodology and explanation gives it a particular distinction. The various ways in which research is conducted is discussed in detail, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, leading to new perspectives on key theoretical issues. First Language Acquisition provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students alike with a cogent and closely analysed exposition of how children acquire language in real time. Equally importantly, readers will have acquired the fundamental knowledge and skill not only to interpret primary literature but also to approach their own research with sophistication.

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"Ingram's book has many fine facets...it stands alone as an intelligent summary of work in the normal acquisitional field." Language "Reading this book will thus deepen our overall understanding of language acquisition." Harvard Educational Review

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

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Further reading	p. 4
Foundations	p. 5
The history of child language studies	p. 7
The period of diary studies (1876-1926)	p. 7
The period of large sample studies (1926-1957)	p. 11
The period of longitudinal language sampling (1957 to present)	p. 21
Further reading	p. 30
Stages of language acquisition	p. 32
Some possible meanings of 'stage'	p. 32
Some proposals on stages of acquisition	p. 38
Descriptive vs. explanatory stage	p. 54
Further reading	p. 57
Explanation and language acquisition	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
Child Language vs. Language Acquisition	p. 60
A theory of acquisition	p. 63
Theoretical assumptions about language acquisition	p. 69
Sources of variation among children	p. 77
Further reading	p. 80
Milestones	p. 81
The period of prelinguistic development	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
Infant speech perception	p. 84
Infant speech production	p. 96
Early cognitive development	p. 115
The linguistic environment	p. 127
Further reading	p. 137
The period of single-word utterances	p. 139
The definition of word acquisition	p. 139
Early word comprehension and production	p. 140
The explanation of early word meaning	p. 155
Pragmatic and grammatical development	p. 160
The onset of phonemic perception and production	p. 178
The linguistic environment	p. 219
Further reading	p. 231
The period of the first word combinations	p. 234
Defining the period of the first word combinations	p. 234
Grammatical development: an overview	p. 236
The grammatical analysis of early word combinations	p. 261
Current theoretical approaches	p. 302
The methodology of grammatical analyses of children	p. 332
Further reading	p. 337
The period of simple sentences: phonological and semantic acquisition	p. 340
Introduction	p. 340
The phonological acquisition of single morphemes	p. 341
The further development of word meaning	p. 394
Further reading	p. 432
The period of simple sentences: acquisition of grammatical morphemes	p. 435
Introduction	p. 435
Morphological acquisition in English: a descriptive overview	p. 439
The acquisition of Aux in English questions	p. 454
Other aspects of English grammatical acquisition	p. 465
Cross-linguistic morphological acquisition	p. 493
The explanation of morphological acquisition	p. 499
Linguistic input and grammatical acquisition	p. 506
Further reading	p. 513
Concluding remarks	p. 516
Bibliography	p. 519
Author index	p. 549
General index	p. 561
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