The Acquisition of Japanese: The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, Volume 1, Chapter 4

First published in 1986. By the late seventies, linguists and psycholinguists in many countries were convinced of the need for gathering data on the acquisition of different types of languages and using the crosslinguistic method. In November 1979 the authors of this volume were invited to prepare interpretive summaries of the course of acquisition of various languages. Preliminary versions of chapters on individual languages were studied in a seminar on crosslinguistic approaches to langua...