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Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Helen Goodluck is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) about?

This text is an up-to-date introduction to language acquisition, designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science. It is the first language acquisition text to be written from the perspective of recent theoretical linguistics, and uses Chomskyan generative grammar as a framework for description. Taking models and analyses from generative phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, Professor Goodluck describes children's language acquisition using examples from a variety of languages. Further chapters take up central questions concerning cognitive mechanisms by which children process language and form rules, the nature of the input to the language learner, and the relation between language development and other aspects of cognitive development. The book is extensively illustrated with models and figures, and each chapter is followed by questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading. It also includes a full bibliography.

Who reads Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Helen Goodluck
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Published
1991
Language
EN
ISBN
9780631173861
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Grammar, Dictionaries & Phrasebooks

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