New book: 'Experience, Variation and Generalization'

[Rowland, Caroline]

Dear all,

As series editors of the TiLAR book series, Shanley Allen and I are pleased to announce the publication of the 7th volume in the series, “Experience, Variation and Generalization”, edited by Eve Clark and Inbal Arnon.  A précis of the book can be found below and further details are on the attached flyer.

Best wishes,

Caro

Experience, Variation and Generalisation
Eve Clark & Inbal Arnon

Are all children exposed to the same linguistic input, and do they follow the same route in acquisition? The answer is no: The language that children hear differs even within a social class or cultural setting, as do the paths individual children take. The linguistic signal itself is also variable, both within and across speakers - the same sound is different across words; the same speech act can be realized with different constructions. The challenge here is to explain, given their diversity of experience, how children arrive at similar generalizations about their first language. This volume brings together studies of phonology, morphology, and syntax in development, to present a new perspective on how experience and variation shape children’s linguistic generalizations. The papers deal with variation in forms, learning processes, and speaker features, and assess the impact of variation on the mechanisms and outcomes of language learning.



Dr Caroline Rowland
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Psychology, Health & Society
Eleanor Rathbone Building
University of Liverpool
LIVERPOOL
L69 7ZA
Tel: +44 151 794 1120
Fax: +44 151 794 2945
Email: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:crowland at liverpool.ac.uk>
Child Language Study Centre:  http://www.liv.ac.uk/psychology/clrc/clrg.html


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