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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition - Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts (Hardcover, c1985-<1997)
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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition - Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts (Hardcover, c1985-<1997)
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In this final volume in the series, the contributors attempt to
"expand the contexts" in which child language has been examined
crosslinguistically. The chapters build on themes that have been
touched on, anticipated, and promised in earlier volumes in the
series. The study of child language has been situated in the
disciplines of psychology and linguistics, and has been most
responsive to dominant issues in those fields such as nativism and
learning, comprehension and production, errors, input, and
universals of morphology and syntax. The context has primarily been
that of the individual child, interacting with a parent, and
deciphering the linguistic code. The code has been generally
treated in these volumes as a system of morphology and syntax, with
little attention to phonology and prosody. Attention has been paid
occasionally to the facts that the child is acquiring language in a
sociocultural setting and that language is used in contexts of
semantic and pragmatic communication.
In addition, there has been a degree of attention paid to the
interactions between language and cognition in the process of
development. As for individual differences between children, they
have been discussed in those studies where they could not be
avoided, but such variation has rarely been the focus of systematic
attention. Differences between individual languages have been of
great interest, but these differences have not often been placed in
a framework of systematic typological variation. And although
languages and their grammars change over time, the focus of
attention on the individual child learner has generally led to
neglect of explanatory principles that are best found on the level
of linguistic diachrony, rather than the level of innate ideas or
patterns of learning and cognition in the individual child. The
chapter authors seek to explore these neglected contexts in more
depth.
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