How Children Learn Language

by William O'Grady

Overview

Demonstrating how children learn to produce and distinguish between sounds, and their acquisition of words and meanings, this book explains their incredible mastery of language. William O'Grady provides readers with an 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521531924
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/06/2005
Series:	Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

William O'Grady is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii.

Table of Contents

1. Small talk; 2. The great word hunt; 3. What's the meaning of this?; 4. Words all in a row; 5. What sentences mean; 6. Talking the talk; 7. How do they do it?; Appendix 1. Keeping a diary and making a tape of recordings; Appendix 2. The sounds of English.

Editorial Reviews

"The strength of this wonderful literary production lies in its simple and illustrative manner and how the author makes the research information reported here accessible to parents, students, and other people who are not in the field."
Maria C. Gomis, Childhood Education

"How Children Learn Language is a small but masterful introduction to research findings concerning language development. It is also an interesting read. Besides being well written, the book is adequately and relevantly illustrated and includes a bibliography of close to 300 works, most quite recent, but many of which are reports of important earlier research." PsycCritiques Lowell Brubaker

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