Children's Language: Revised Edition: Consensus and Controversy

Type

Book

Authors

Ray Cattell

ISBN 10

0826488803

ISBN 13

9780826488800

Tags

Foreign Language Study & Reference, Linguistics, Children's Studies, Social Sciences

Description

The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. Although there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong, there is much less agreement as to how children really learn language. This revised edition of Ray Cattell's bestselling textbook aims to give readers the background necessary to form their own views on the debate, and includes accessible summaries of key thinkers, including Chomsky, Halliday, Karmiloff-Smith and Piaget. - from Amzon

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