First Language Acquisition
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Description
Now in its fourth edition, this textbook provides a chronological account of first language acquisition, showing how young children acquire language in their conversational interactions with adult speakers. It draws on diary records and experimental studies from leaders in the field to document different stages and different aspects of what children master. Successive chapters detail infants' and young children's progression from attending to adult faces, gaze, and hand motions, to their first attempts at communicating with gaze and gesture, then…
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Key features
- Provides detailed examples of child usage to connect the theory with the data
- Presents different perspectives on language use, with examples, and clear linguistic descriptions
- Includes links to databases and programs for analysis, along with a list of resources for student projects/research
About the book
- Subjects Developmental Psychology,Language and Linguistics,Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics,Psychology
- Format: Paperback
- Expected publication date: 31 July 2024
- ISBN: 9781009294522
- Dimensions (mm): 244 x 170 mm
- Page extent: 620 pages
- Availability: Not yet published - available from
- Format: Hardback
- Expected publication date: 31 July 2024
- ISBN: 9781009294492
- Dimensions (mm): 244 x 170 mm
- Page extent: 620 pages
- Availability: Not yet published - available from
- Format: Digital
- Expected publication date: 30 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781009294485