Useful Weblinks

Introduction

The Internet has a vast range of very useful resources on language acquisition issues and children's language development. There are two main uses of Internet material:

• For critical and analytical material, search for the names of prominent linguists and psychologists working in the area. Many of them have their own resource pages, with their own articles which you can read online. Some of these are held directly on their websites, others are linked to the main scholarly journals - many of which are also available online. You can usually be sure of the credibility of writers who have published widely and who are attached to university departments.
• For direct access to examples of children's language, the Internet allows you to collect data from the comfort of your own chair.

Note to students:
If you wish to use material from websites in your essays, you need to reference it as carefully as you would material from a printed book or article. Here is a model for how to reference website articles:

Lichtarowicz, A., 21 April 2000, 'Baby babble 'key to language''
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_721000/721554.stm
Accessed 15 February 2004

You must include the complete URL for the exact web page on which the article appeared. It is not sufficient to simply put 'BBC website' or even www.bbc.co.uk. You also need to put the date you accessed the web page.

Use the navigation on the left to access even more sites related to this subject area.