
First Language Acquisition
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Product details:
- Edition number 4, Revised
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 20 June 2024
- ISBN 9781009294522
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages690 pages
- Size 242x171x37 mm
- Weight 1160 g
- Language English 740
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Short description:
Now in its fourth edition, this textbook has been extensively updated and provides a comprehensive account of first language acquisition.
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Now in its fourth edition, this textbook provides a chronological account of first language acquisition, showing how young children acquire language in their conversational interactions with adult speakers. It draws on diary records and experimental studies from leaders in the field to document different stages and different aspects of what children master. Successive chapters detail infants' and young children's progression from attending to adult faces, gaze, and hand motions, to their first attempts at communicating with gaze and gesture, then adding words and constructions. It comprehensively covers the acquisition of the core areas of language - phonetics and phonology, lexicon, grammar and sentence structure, and meaning - as well as how children acquire discourse and conversational skills. This edition includes new sections on how children build 'common ground' with adults and other children, individual differences in children's language development, how they collaborate with adults in constructing utterances, and how they qualify beliefs.
'Twenty years after its first edition, Eve Clark has again fully updated her now classic textbook. It will continue to be the world's most comprehensive and evenly balanced text on first language acquisition.' Willem Levelt, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Table of Contents:
1. Acquiring language; Part I. Getting Started: 2. In conversation with children; 3. Starting on language: perception; 4. Early words; 5. Sounds in words: production; 6. Words and meanings; Part II. Constructions and Meanings: 7. First combinations, first constructions; 8. Modulating word meanings; 9. Adding complexity within clauses; 10. Combining clauses: more complex constructions; 11. Constructing words; Part III. Using Language: 12. Honing conversational skills; 13. Doing things with language; 14. Two languages at a time; Part IV. Process in Acquisition: 15. Specialization for language; 16. Acquisition: continuity and change.
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