Language Acquisition: A Linguistic IntroductionISBN: 978-0-631-17386-1
Paperback
236 pages
August 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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This text is an up-to-date introduction to language acquisition,
designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and beginning
graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science. It is the
first language acquisition text to be written from the perspective
of recent theoretical linguistics, and uses Chomskyan generative
grammar as a framework for description. Taking models and analyses
from generative phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics,
Professor Goodluck describes children's language acquisition using
examples from a variety of languages. Further chapters take up
central questions concerning cognitive mechanisms by which children
process language and form rules, the nature of the input to the
language learner, and the relation between language development and
other aspects of cognitive development.
The book is extensively illustrated with models and figures, and each chapter is followed by questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading. It also includes a full bibliography.