Dr Atkinson's work has grown out of a deep satisfaction with the
state of theorising in child language development. Critical
analysis of superficially attractive theories showed that they had
no real explanatory power. Yet no coherent framework had been
proposed for evaluating theorising in this area. A central tenet of
this volume is that theories of language development should be
relatable to some general view of human development and, on this
basis, Dr Atkinson presents a number of conditions that any
adequate theory of language development should satisfy. The major
theories in most areas of language acquisition, in particular work
in semantic, syntactic and functional development, are then
systematically examined in the light of these conditions and found
wanting. In a final chapter, the author relates his work to recent
studies in the formal theory of learnability. This scholarly
critique should be read by anyone with a serious interest in the
study of child language development and will undoubtedly have a
singular impact on the field.
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