Language Acquisition offers, in one convenient reader, work by the most                  outstanding researchers in each field and is intended as a snapshot of the sort of                  theory and research taking place in language acquisition in the 1990s. All of the                  articles and chapters were chosen to reflect topics and debates of current interest,                  and all take an interdisciplinary approach to language development, relating the                  study of how a child comes to possess a language to issues within linguistics,                  computational theory, biology, social cognition, and comparative psychology.While                  there are several introductory texts on language development, and countless                  collections of articles, thisscientists are asking about language acquisition, the                  important experimental findings, and the key theoretical debates, suitable for                  students at advanced levels and scholars with a range of different perspectives and                  interests.The readings are organized into six sections:- the onset of language                  development,- word learning,- syntax and semantics,- morphology,- acquisition in                  special circumstances, and- alternative perspectives.Each section serves as an                  introduction to a specific area and provides sufficient background for further                  reading.Contributors : Dare A. Baldwin. Paul Bloom. Melissa Bowerman. Kathie L.                  Carpenter. Eve V. Clark. Stephen Crain. Richard F. Cromer. Anne Fernald. Lila                  Gleitman. Richard Goldberg. Susan Goldin-Meadow. Peter Gordon. Jess Gropen. Michelle                  Hollander. Janellen Huttenlocher. Annette Karmiloff-Smith. Ellen M.Markman. Peter                  Marler. Jay L. McClelland. Carolyn Mylander. Elissa L. Newport. Laura Ann Petitto.                  Steven Pinker. David E. Rumelhart. Patricia Smiley.A Bradford Book

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