Child Language:provides a comprehensive overview of language acquisition in childrenintroduces students to key theories and concerns such as innateness, the role of input and the relation of language to other cognitive functionsteaches students the skills needed to analyze children’s languageincludes sections on the bilingual child and atypical language developmentprovides classic readings by key names in the field, such as Brian MacWhinney, Richard Cromer, Jean Aitchison, and Eve Clark.The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415281032

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-12-13
Mått:174 x 246 x 12 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge English Language Introductions
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415281034

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Jean Stilwell Peccei is a Visiting Lecturer in the English Language & Linguistics programme at Roehampton University. She is the author of Child Language 2nd Edition (Routledge Language Workbooks series, 1999) and Pragmatics (Routledge Language Workbooks series, 1999) and co-author of Language, Society and Power 2nd Edition (Routledge 2004).

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'Engaging as it is, Child Language opens the door of the fascinating area of language acquisition to students who might think that child language is mere imitation and as such, not worth investigating. Most importantly, the reader is not a passive recipient of knowledge in this book but is invited to actively observe the language acquisition process and experience real data.' - Linguist List

Innehållsförteckning

A. Introduction: Key Concepts in Language Acquisition A.1. Approaches to Language Acquisition A.2. Phonological Development A.3. Lexical Development A.4. Morphological Development A.5. Syntactic Development A.6. Discourse Development A.7. Literacy Development A.8. The Bilingual Child B. Development: Analyzing Children’s Language B.1. A Closer Look at Child Directed Speech B.2. Learning and Producing the Sounds of Words B.3. Learning the Meaning of Words B.4. Learning How to Build Words B.5. Learning How to Build Sentences B.6. Acquiring Communicative Competence B.7. A Closer Look at Spelling B.8. Using Two Dialects C. Exploration: Data for Investigation C.1. Research Methods C.2. Children’s Pronunciation Patterns C.3. Children’s Lexicons C.4. Children as Word-makers C.5. Building a Grammar C.6. Children’s Conversations C.7. Children’s Writing C.8. Using More Than one Language D. Extension: Readings in Language Acquisition D.1. Current Perspectives on Language Acquisition D.2. Children’s Mental Representations of Sounds D.3. Naming Things for Children D.4. A Child’s Invention of New Words D.5. Accounting for Growth and Change in Children’s Grammar D.6. Language and Socialization D.7. A Cross-Linguistic Approach to Dyslexia D.8. Bilingual Children’s Use of Code-Switching. References. Glossarial Index