Language Acquisition

Studies in First Language Development

By: Paul Fletcher (Editor), Michael Garman (Editor, Preface by)

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Paperback | 21 July 1986 | Edition Number 2

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The aim of the first edition of Language Acquisition was to provide as comprehensive a description and explanation as possible of the changes in the child''s language as he or she grows older. In this second edition Paul Fletcher and Michael Garman have the same fundamental aim. Six years later the field has not changed dramatically, but there have been fruitful theoretical developments -- the learnability hypothesis, in particular, has been influentially expounded -- and empirical work seeking evidence of specific language capacities in children has made notable advances. Equally significant are shifts in emphasis: the growing interest in cross-linguistic studies, for example, or accounts of language development from a social-interactive perspective, or of the development of reading and writing.

All these changes are reflected in the second edition. About half the chapters are entirely new, having been specially commissioned for this edition. The remainder of the book consists of substantially revised versions of chapters from the first edition.

Like its predecessor, this collection is the work of distinguished specialists from many countries and will provide an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike who have an interest in the field of child language acquisition.

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

Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Contexts and determinants	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Psychosocial aspects of language acquisition	p. 9
Language acquisition and cognition	p. 30
Language acquisition and linguistic theory	p. 49
Conversations with children	p. 69
Learnability	p. 90
Variation in child language	p. 109
The development of linguistic systems: phonology	p. 141
Introduction	p. 143
Prespeech segmental feature development	p. 149
Prosodic development	p. 174
Early strategies for the perception and production of words and sounds	p. 198
Phonological development: production	p. 223
Speech perception and the emergent lexicon: an ethological approach	p. 240
Phonological development: a crosslinguistic perspective	p. 251
The development of linguistic systems: grammar	p. 269
Introduction	p. 271
Early vocabulary	p. 279
Early syntax	p. 307
Assessing morphological development	p. 326
Personal pronouns	p. 339
Tense and aspect	p. 356
Modality	p. 375
Deixis	p. 401
A crosslinguistic perspective: morphology and syntax	p. 429
Later language development	p. 449
Introduction	p. 451
Some fundamental aspects of language development after age 5	p. 455
The development of reading: the acquisition of a cognitive skill	p. 475
Language acquisition and writing	p. 494
Notes to chapters	p. 519
Bibliography and citation index	p. 535
General index	p. 603
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