Child language : acquisition and development /

Saxton, Matthew.

Child language : acquisition and development / Matthew Saxton. - Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2010. - xvii, 326 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Prelude: Landmarks in the Landscape of Child Language -- 2.Can Animals Acquire Human Language? Shakespeare’s Typewriter -- 3.The Critical Period Hypothesis: Now or Never? -- 4.Input and Interaction: Tutorials for Toddlers -- 5.Language in the First Year: Breaking the Sound Barrier -- 6.The Developing Lexicon: What’s in a Name? -- 7.The Acquisition of Morphology: Linguistic Lego -- 8.Linguistic Nativism: To the Grammar Born -- 9.The Usage-based Approach: Making it Up as You Go Along -- 10.You Say Nature, I Say Nurture: Better Call the Calling Off Off

9781412902328

2009931934


Language acquisition.
Children--Language.

P118.S29 2010

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