Child language / Jean Stilwell Peccei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peccei, Jean Stilwell.

Series:

Language workbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

ix, 116 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Starting to talk 1

2 Finding out what words mean 7

3 Building up a dictionary 14

4 Putting together sentences 22

5 Building longer sentences 29

6 Saying 'No' and asking questions 37

7 Becoming a word maker 46

8 Having a conversation 54

9 Learning to get the sounds right 61

10 Still learning: 'Dogs' and 'Gogs' 68

11 Exploring children's language: projects 75

12 Going on from here: central issues and study questions 85.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-93) and index.

ISBN:

0415198364

OCLC:

44268043