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Title First language acquisition : the essential readings / edited by Barbara C. Lust and Claire Foley
Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004

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Description xi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Linguistics ; 4
Linguistics (Malden, Mass.) ; 4
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Barbara C. Lust and Claire Foley. -- Part I. Theory of Language Acquisition -- 1. Selections from Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use: Noam Chomsky. -- 2. A Review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior: Noam Chomsky. -- 3. Selections from The Psychology of the Child: Jean Piaget and BrĖƒbel Inhelder. -- 4. Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky: Massimo Piattelii-Palmarini (editor). -- 5. Selections from Comparative Linguistics and Language Acquisition: Hermine Sinclair. -- Part II: The Nature-Nurture Controversies -- Nature: Biology -- 6. Selections from The Biological Foundations of Language: Eric H. Lenneberg. -- 7. Language and the Brain: Norman Geschwind. -- 8. Selections from The Bisected Brain: Michael S. Gazzaniga. -- 9. The Linguistic Development of Genie: Susan Curtiss, Victoria Fromkin, Stephen Krashen, David Rigler, & Marilyn Rigler. -- Nurture: Role of the Input -- 10. Derivational Theory and Order of Acquisition in Child Speech: Roger Brown and Camille Hanlon. -- 11. Talking to Children: A Search for Universals: Charles A. Ferguson. -- 12. Learning by Instinct: James L. Gould & Peter Marler. -- Mechanisms of Development -- 13. Selections from Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child: Barbara Landau & Lila R. Gleitman. -- 14. Selections from Language Learnability and Language Development: Steven Pinker. -- 15. Selections from Learnability and Cognition: Steven Pinker. -- 16. Selection from Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development: H. Sinclair-deZwart. -- 17. Selections from Cognitive Prerequisites for the Development of Grammar: Dan I. Slobin. -- Part III: Areas of Language Knowledge -- Morphology -- 18. The Child's Learning of English Morphology: Jean Berko (Gleason). -- 19. Selections from A First Language: Roger Brown. -- Phonology -- Speech Perception -- 20. Speech Perception in Infants: Peter D. Eimas, Einar R. Siqueland, Peter Jusczyk, and James Vigorito. -- Speech Production -- 21. The sound laws of child language and their place in general phonology: Roman Jakobson. -- 22. Universal Tendencies in the Child's Acquisition of Phonology: N.V. Smith. -- 23. The acquisition of phonemic representation: David Stampe. -- Syntax -- 24. Selections from The Problem of Serial Order in Behavior: K.S. Lashley. -- 25. The Study of Adam, Eve, and Sarah: Roger Brown. -- 26. Syntactic Regularities in the Speech of Children: E.S. Klima and Ursula Bellugi. -- 27. The Reduction Transformation and Constraints on Sentence Length: Lois Bloom. -- Semantics and Pragmatics -- 28. The young word maker: A case study of innovation in the child's lexicon: Eve V. Clark. -- 29. Strategies for Communicating: Eve V. Clark. -- Index
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Language acquisition.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung
Author Lust, Barbara, 1941-
Foley, Claire.
LC no. 2003013381
ISBN 0631232540 hardcover alkaline paper
0631232559 paperback alkaline paper