Language Acquisition by Children
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A01=Helen Goodluck
AD=20200630
Author_Helen Goodluck
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=CFK
Category=NL-CF
child language
COP=United Kingdom
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Format_Hardback
HMM=234
IMPN=Edinburgh University Press
ISBN13=9781474458153
language acquisition
language cognition
language development
language variation
Language_English
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PD=20200630
POP=Edinburgh
Price_€100 to €200
PS=Forthcoming
PUB=Edinburgh University Press
SN=Edinburgh Advanced Textbooks in Linguistics
Subject=Linguistics
Universal Grammar
WMM=156
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- ISBN 9781474458153
- Format: Hardback
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: Edinburgh, GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This textbooks introduces the main arguments for an innate, domain specific capacity to learn human language. It guides you through the growth of language in a typically developing child and also discusses a range of viewpoints, introducing the central controversies in the field of language acquisition.
Taking models and analyses from generative phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, the author describes children's language acquisition using examples from a wide variety of languages. She explores the connections between language and other aspects of human cognition, the role of environment in learning, and the role in language development of mechanisms for speech production and speech comprehension.
Extensively illustrated with models and figures, each chapter is also followed by a summary box, exercises and questions for discussion. An appendix of research techniques and suggestions for further reading is also included, to provide a Chomskyan introduction to language acquisition for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science.
Helen Goodluck is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York.
