20.343, Books: Language Acquisition: Clark

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Title: First Language Acquisition 
Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Eve V. Clark

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521514132 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 140.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780521514132 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521732932 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521732932 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 42.99


Abstract:

Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Babies are not born talking, they learn language, starting immediately from
birth. How does this process take place? When do children master the skills
needed for using language successfully? What stages do they go through as
they learn to understand and talk? Do the languages they learn affect the
way they think? This new edition of Eve Clark's highly successful textbook
focuses on children's acquisition of a first language, the stages of
development they go through, and how they use language as they learn. It
reports on recent findings in each area covered, includes a completely new
chapter on the acquisition of two languages and shows how speech to
children differs by social class. Skilfully integrating actual data with
coverage of current theories and debates, it is an essential guide to
studying language acquisition for those working in linguistics,
developmental psychology and cognitive science. 



1. Acquiring language: issues and questions; 

Part I. Getting Started: 
2. In conversation with children; 
3. Starting on language: perception; 
4. Early words; 
5. Sounds in words: production; 
6. Words and meanings; 

Part II. Constructions and Meanings: 
7. First combinations, first constructions; 
8. Modulating word meanings; 
9. Adding complexity within clauses; 
10. Combining clauses: more complex constructions; 
11. Constructing words; 

Part III. Using Language: 
12. Honing conversational skills; 
13. Doing things with language; 
14. Two languages at once; 

Part IV. Process in Acquisition: 
15. Specialization for language; 
16. Acquisition and change. 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=39320


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	Brill          
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	Cambridge University Press          
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	Cascadilla Press          
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	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
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	Edinburgh University Press          
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	Emerald Group Publishing Limited          
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	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
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	Georgetown University Press          
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	Hodder Education          
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	John Benjamins          
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	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Multilingual Matters          
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	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
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	Oxford University Press          
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