Language Acquisition
An up-to-date introduction to language acquisition for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive scienceExamples from a wide variety of languages including…
Specifikacia Language Acquisition
An up-to-date introduction to language acquisition for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive scienceExamples from a wide variety of languages including English, Chinese, Dutch, German, Kannada, Portuguese and SpanishA clear theoretical stance, adopting Chomskyan generative grammar as a frameworkSummary boxes, exercises and discussion questions at the end of each chapter to improve understanding, generate discussion and encourage reflectionAppendices of research techniques and resources to aid further studyHelen Goodluck adopts Chomskyan generative grammar as a framework to guide students through the growth of language in a typically developing child. She presents competing viewpoints and introduces the central controversies in the field in order to give students the opportunity to evaluate