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Language Development and Individual Differences - A Study of Auxiliary Verb Learning (Hardcover, New)
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Language Development and Individual Differences - A Study of Auxiliary Verb Learning (Hardcover, New)
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This study examines the variation between children in early
language development, focusing on their acquisition of the
auxiliary verb. Learning auxiliary verbs and the syntactic and
pragmatic functions with which they are associated is an essential
component in the child's language development from an early stage.
At the same time, children vary extensively in the age and stage at
which auxiliaries emerge and also in the style and rate at which
subsequent development takes place. Some aspects of this variation
have been linked with the quality of interaction with the child's
conversation partners, others with a tendency to acquire language
holistically through unanalysed 'chunks'. Using data drawn both
from the Bristol Longitudinal Study of Language Development and
from independent case studies conducted in Wales, Dr Richards
points to a number of important areas of variation between
children, for example in sequence of syntactic development and in
the relationship between pragmatic and syntactic factors, and
raises a number of important methodological and theoretical issues,
such as how to assess the level of unanalytical usage and how to
measure real syntactic advance. By analysing relationships between
input and auxiliary growth, the study attempts to resolve some of
the inconsistencies in the results of previous studies which have
included the auxiliary as a measure. The book will be of value to
all those interested in language acquisition, whether linguists,
psychologists, speech therapists or lecturers in nursery, infant
and special education.
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