First Language Acquisition: Method, Description and Explanation - Brossura

Ingram, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521349168 ISBN 13: 9780521349161

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Riassunto

This major textbook, setting new standards of clarity and comprehensiveness, will be welcomed by all serious students of first language acquisition. Written from a linguistic perspective, it provides detailed accounts of the development of children's receptive and productive abilities in all the core areas of language - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. With a critical acuity drawn from long experience, and without attempting to offer a survey of all the huge mass of child language literature, David Ingram directs students to the fundamental studies and sets these in broad perspective. Students are thereby introduced to the history of the field and the current state of our knowledge in respect of three main themes: method, description and explanation. Whilst the descriptive facts that are currently available on first language acquisition are central to the book, its emphasis on methodology and explanation gives it a particular distinction. The various ways in which research is conducted is discussed in detail, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, leading to new perspectives on key theoretical issues. First Language Acquisition provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students alike with a cogent and closely analysed exposition of how children acquire language in real time. Equally importantly, readers will have acquired the fundamental knowledge and skill not only to interpret primary literature but also to approach their own research with sophistication.

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Recensione

"Ingram's book has many fine facets...it stands alone as an intelligent summary of work in the normal acquisitional field." Language

"Reading this book will thus deepen our overall understanding of language acquisition." Harvard Educational Review

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Foundations: 2. The history of child language studies; 3. Stages of language acquisition; 4. Explanation and language acquisition; Part II. Milestones: 5. The period of prelinguistic development; 6. The period of single-word utterances; 7. The period of the first word combinations; 8. The period of simple sentences: phonological and semantic acquisition; 9. The period of simple sentences: acquisition of grammatical morphemes; 10. Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Author index; General index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521349168
• ISBN 13: 9780521349161
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 588
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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