Child language acquisition : contrasting theoritical approaches
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xv, 448 p. : illISBN: 9780521745239 Subject(s): Children | Language acquisition | Language arts | Verbal ability in childrenDDC classification: 401.93 Summary: "Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches: generativist and constructivist. For each debate, the predictions of the competing accounts are closely and even-handedly evaluated against the empirical data. The result is an evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research that will constitute a valuable resource for students, teachers, course-builders and researchers alike"--
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| 401.43 VOC Vocabulary for TOEFL/IELTS | 401.45 SEN/U Understanding pragmatics : | 401.9 WAR/I Introducing psycholinguistics | 401.93 AMB/C Child language acquisition : contrasting theoritical approaches | 401.93 ELL/S Study of second language acquistion | 401.93 SAV/I Introducing Second Language Acquisition | 40228 SUJ/I Translation as discovery |
"Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches: generativist and constructivist. For each debate, the predictions of the competing accounts are closely and even-handedly evaluated against the empirical data. The result is an evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research that will constitute a valuable resource for students, teachers, course-builders and researchers alike"--
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