Foster-Cohen Susan H. Language Acquisition

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 359 p. — (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics). — ISBN10: 0230500293, ISBN13: 978-0230500297.This book provides a snapshot of the field of language acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the multiplicity of approaches that characterize the field and provides a review of current topics and debates, as well as addressing some of the connections between sub-fields and possible future directions for research.
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Explaining language acquisition:
word learning and the origins of phonological systems, cracking the language code: processing strategies in first language acquisition, the inevitability of child directed speech, universal grammar approaches to language acquisition, second language acquisition.
Windows on language acquisition:
language and the many faces of emotion, complements enable representation of the contents of false beliefs: the evolution of a theory of theory of mind, going beyond semantics: the development of pragmatic enrichment, the acquisition of phrasal vocabulary.
Language acquisition, culture and linguistic diversity:
language development in simultaneous bilingual children, universals and cross-linguistic variability in children’s discourse, trends in research on narrative development, family literacy activities: what is, what ought to be and the role of parents’ ideas.