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Language Acquisition (Paperback)
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Language Acquisition (Paperback)
Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
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Language learners come in all sizes. Children learn one language;
they learn many. Older children and adults add languages. Some
children learn language against the odds, faced as they are by
developmental difficulties of many kinds. How do learners meet
these different language acquisition challenges?
What role does the ability to read the minds of others play in the
development of syntax? Do children know they are learning words
when they do it? Are children more or less conservative than adults
when they understand words like 'some' and 'and'? Do we really know
the impact of the language we speak to children? Can we really talk
about one language being more dominant than another in a child's
repertoire? How do cultural patterns of language use impact on the
development of language?
We may have moved beyond the conception of language development as
nature versus nurture, but we remain uncertain of the exact roles
played by the nature of the human animal and the nature of the
language environment that learners develop in. We are also by no
means in agreement about the important questions to ask and the
theoretical frameworks within which to ask or answer them
This volume provides a snapshot of the field of language
acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the
multiplicity of approaches that characterize this energetic sub
field of linguistics and provides readers with a review of current
topics and debates, as well as addressing some of the connections
between sub-fields and possible future directions for research in
first language, second language, bilingualism, and language
disorder in languages that are spoken, manual, and written.
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