Child Language

by Jean Stilwell Peccei

Overview

Building on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory content, more exercises and summaries at the end of each unit.
Child Language:
* introduces students to key areas involved in the study of children's language: vocabulary development, word and sentence structure, conversational skills and pronunciation
* contains a corpus of children's language
* includes suggestions for project work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134640393
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/11/2002
Series:	Language Workbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jean Stilwell Peccei, formerly Roehampton University, UK.

Table of Contents

Unit 1: Starting to Talk Unit 2: Finding Out What Words Mean Unit 3: Building Up a Dictionary Unit 4: Putting Together Sentences Unit 5: Building Longer Sentences Unit 6: Saying No and Asking Questions Unit 7: Becoming a Word Maker Unit 8: Having a Conversation Unit 9: Learning to Get the Sounds Right Unit 10: Still Learning: Gogs and Dogs Unit 11: Exploring Children's Language: Projects Unit 12: Going on From Here: Further Study and Reading Corpus of Child Language Data Answers to Further Exercises

Editorial Reviews

An introduction to language acquisition for students with no background in linguistics. Outlines major areas of linguistic analysis involved in the study of children's language and covers key areas such as vocabulary development, word and sentence structures, conversational skills, and pronunciation. This second edition contains an expanded corpus of child language data and 24 additional exercises, plus unit summaries and detailed guidance for simple research projects. The author teaches at the Roehampton Institute London. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

‘Particularly suitable for my first year students, who have little background in linguistics. Genuine data and practical exercises are among the strengths of this invaluable workbook.' - Jamal Ardehali, Glasgow University

'Excellent as a pre-course introduction to language acquisition; goodpractical exercises to assimilate information.' - G.Stoneham, St Mark and St John College, Plymouth

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