First Language Acquisition

by Eve V. Clark

This study takes a comprehensive look at where and when children acquire a first language. It integrates social and cognitive approaches to how children analyze, understand, and produce sounds, words, and sentences as they learn to use language to cooperate and achieve goals. A usage-based approach to considering what children learn emphasizes pragmatic factors in language use, and includes research on word-formation, and on bilingualism and dialect-choice.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Language, Psychology

534 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[dangerous at every speed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting, well written, good examples

[Oğuzhan]

Read some chapters.

[dona]

could’ve summarized this u wasted my time