LINGUIST List 17.3446

Wed Nov 22 2006

Books: Psycholinguistics: Lust

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, Child Language: Lust

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Message 1: Child Language: Lust
Date: 15-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Child Language: Lust


Title: Child Language Subtitle: Acquisition and Growth Series Title: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Published: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/9780521449229

Author: Barbara Lust Hardback: ISBN: 0521444780 Pages: 300 Price: U.K. £ 45.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521444780 Pages: 300 Price: U.S. $ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521449227 Pages: 300 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521449227 Pages: 300 Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Abstract:

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has longfascinated linguists and developmental psychologists alike. Language is askill that we have essentially mastered by the age of three, and withincredible ease and speed, despite the complexity of the task. Thisaccessible 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 aswhat characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquirelanguage; how far acquisition is biologically programmed and how far it isinfluenced by our environment; what makes second language learning (inadulthood) different from first language acquisition; and whether thespecific stages in language development are universal across languages.Clear and comprehensive, it is set to become a key text for all courses inchild language acquisition, within linguistics, developmental psychologyand cognitive science.

1. The growth of language 2. What is acquired? 3. What is the problem of language acquisition? 4. How we can construct a theory of language acquisition 5. Brain and language development 6. The nature of nurture 7. How can we tell what children know?: methods for the study of languageacquisition 8. The acquisition of phonology 9. The acquisition of syntax 10. The acquisition of semantics 11. On the nature of language growth 12. Conclusions: towards an integrated theory of language acquisition.


Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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