How Children Learn Language - Couverture rigide

O'Grady, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 052182494X ISBN 13 : 9780521824941

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Adults tend to take language for granted - until they have to learn a new one. Then they realize how difficult it is to get the pronunciation right, to acquire the meaning of thousands of new words, and to learn how those words are put together to form sentences. Children, however, have mastered language before they can tie their shoes. In this engaging and accessible book, William O'Grady explains how this happens, discussing how children learn to produce and distinguish among sounds, their acquisition of words and meanings, and their mastery of the rules for building sentences. How Children Learn Language provides readers with a highly readable overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate his mysterious phenomenon. It will be of great interest to anyone - parent or student - wishing to find out how children acquire language.

Revue de presse

'The engaging style of the book, and its accessibility combined with its scientific rigour make this volume ideal for a lay audience and for introductory undergraduate courses to language acquisition.' The Journal of Child Language

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 052182494X
• ISBN 13: 9780521824941
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 248