How Children Learn Language |
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| Author:
| O'Grady, William |
| Contribution by:
| Aitchison, Jean |
| Series title: | Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-53192-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $54.95 |
Book Description:
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This engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children, discussing how they learn to produce and distinguish among sounds, and their acquisition of words and meanings, and of the rules for building sentences. William O'Grady provides readers with a highly readable overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate this mysterious phenomenon. It...
More DescriptionThis engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children, discussing how they learn to produce and distinguish among sounds, and their acquisition of words and meanings, and of the rules for building sentences. William O'Grady provides readers with a highly readable overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate this mysterious phenomenon. It will be of great interest to anyone--parent or student--wishing to find out how children acquire language.