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Child language : acquisition and growth / Barbara C. Lust, Cornell University.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge textbooks in linguisticsPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xix, 389 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521449229
  • 0521449227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 401.93 LUS 22
Online resources: Summary: This accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, exploring language development from birth into the early childhood years. Setting out the key theoretical debates, it considers questions such as what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language; how far acquisition is biologically programmed and how far it is influenced by our environment; what makes second language learning (in adulthood) different from first language acquisition; and whether the specific stages in language development are universal across languages
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Includes glossary.

Includes appendices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, exploring language development from birth into the early childhood years. Setting out the key theoretical debates, it considers questions such as what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language; how far acquisition is biologically programmed and how far it is influenced by our environment; what makes second language learning (in adulthood) different from first language acquisition; and whether the specific stages in language development are universal across languages

Mahmoud Sami

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