Child Language

By Jean Stilwell Peccei

Series: Language Workbooks 

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Child Language:

  • is a comprehensive introduction to child language, introducing students to the key theories of language acquisition and teaching them skills for analyzing children's language
  • covers the core areas of language acquisition: phonological, semantic, syntactic, morphological and discourse development, the bilingual child and language development in exceptional circumstances
  • draws on a range of real texts and data
  • provides classic readings by the key names in the discipline: J. Becker, Roger Brown, R. Ely, Jean Berko-Gleason, J.N. Jorgenson, D. Messer, S. Pinker, and N. Smith.
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