Eve V. Clark (California Stanford University)

First Language Acquisition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook provides a well-illustrated account of how young children acquire language. Drawing on diary records and experimental studies from leaders in the field, it documents different stages and aspects of what children master, based on their conversational interactions with more expert (adult) speakers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 4 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 690
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 169mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1212g
• ISBN-13: 9781009294522
• ISBN-10: 1009294520
• Artikelnr.: 69514828

Autorenporträt

Eve V. Clark is Lyman Professor in Humanities and Professor of Linguistics and Symbolic Systems, Emerita at the Department of Linguistics, Stanford University and is the 2021 recipient of the Roger Brown Award for her research on language acquisition. Recent publications include Language in Children (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

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.