Handbook of Child Language Acquisition

Name: Handbook of Child Language Acquisition
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ISBN: 9780125890410

ISBN-10: 0125890419

ISBN-13: 9780125890410

Edition: 1998

Authors: William Ritchie, Tej Bhatia

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What allows children to acquire language so effortlessly, with such speed, and with such amazing accuracy? Capitalizing on the most recent developments in linguistics and cognitive psychology, this volume sheds new light on the what, why, and how of the child's ability to acquire one or more languages. The Handbook is one of a kind in a number of respects. It includes state-of-the-art treatments of acquisition from a variety of theoretical viewpoints ranging from functionalist approaches and the implications of the creolization of languages for the study of acquisition to the relevance of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It contains overviews of the acquisition of all components of linguistic…

Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: BRILL
Publication date: 11/16/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 742
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 2.816
Language: English



Research and Theoretical Issues in Child Language Acquisition



Child Language Acquisition: Introduction, Foundations, and Overview. Issues of Innateness, Maturation, and Modularity in Child Language Acquisition



On the Nature, Use, and Acquisition of Language



Maturation and Growth of Grammar



Universal Grammar: The Strong Continuity Hypothesis in First Language Acquisition



The Acquisition of Syntactic Representations: A General Nativist Approach



Creole Languages, the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis, and Language Acquisition



Functionalist Accounts of the Process of First Language Acquisition. Semantics and Syntax in Child Word Learning



Theories of Word Learning: Rationalist Alternatives to Associationism



The Role of Syntax in Verb Learning. The Child's Acquisition of Phonology and Pragmatics



Child Phonology, Learnability, and Phonological Theory



The Development of Pragmatics: Learning to Use Language Appropriately. Research Methodology and Applications



Methodology in the Study of Language Acquisition: A Modular Approach



How Do We Know What Children Know? Problems and Advances in Establishing Scientific Methods for the Study of Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory



The CHILDES System. Modality and the Linguistic Environment in Child Language



Input and Language Acquisition



Modality Effects and Modularity in Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of American Sign Language



The Bilingual Child: Some Issues and Perspectives. Language Disorders and Impairments: Special Cases of Child Language Acquisition



Some Empirical and Theoretical Issues in Disordered Child Phonology



Linguistic Perspectives on Specific Language Impairment


List of Abbreviations


Author Index


Subject Index