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This text provides a comprehensive introduction to current thinking on language acquisition. Following an introductory chapter that discusses the foundations of linguistic inquiry, the book covers the acquisition of specific aspects of language from birth to about age 6. Topics include the language abilities of newborns, the acquisition of phonological properties of language, the lexicon, syntax, pronoun and sentence interpretation, control structures, specific language impairments, and the relationship between language and other cognitive functions.
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Language Acquisition, Maria Teresa Guasti
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Language Acquisition
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Maria Teresa Guasti
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 474
- ISBN10
- 026207222X
- ISBN13
- 9780262072229
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Textbooks, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, Languages, Language Textbooks
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- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- This text provides a comprehensive introduction to current thinking on language acquisition. Following an introductory chapter that discusses the foundations of linguistic inquiry, the book covers the acquisition of specific aspects of language from birth to about age 6. Topics include the language abilities of newborns, the acquisition of phonological properties of language, the lexicon, syntax, pronoun and sentence interpretation, control structures, specific language impairments, and the relationship between language and other cognitive functions.