Language Acquisition
Core Readings
1st MIT Press Ed edition
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Word Count
156,000 words, Guess
Page Count
624 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9880930M
- Internet Archivelanguageacquisit00paul
- ISBN-100262521873
- ISBN-139780262521871
- LibraryThing329814
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- Goodreads1744678
Description
A collection of articles by language scientists. *Language Acquisition* offers, in one convenient reader, work by the most outstanding researchers in each field and is intended as a snapshot of the sort of theory and research taking place in language acquisition in the 1990s. All of the articles and chapters were chosen to reflect topics and debates of contemporary interest, and all take an interdisciplinary approach to language development, relating the study of how a child comes to possess a language to issues within linguistics, computational theory, biology, social cognition, and comparative psychology.
First Sentence
The question of whether language is a product of natural selection is a subject of lively current debate among philosophers and psycholinguists armed with arguments and counter-arguments from evolutionary biology.
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