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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      November 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511486784
      9780521584418
      9780521065108
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486784
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.822kg, 412 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 412 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Developmental Psychology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (98)
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    Subjects:
    Developmental Psychology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (98)
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    This comparative study explores two central questions in the study of first language acquisition: What is the relative impact of structural and functional determinants? What is universal versus language-specific during development? Maya Hickmann addresses these questions in three domains of child language: reference to entities, the representation of space, and uses of temporal-aspectual markings. She provides a thorough review of different theoretical approaches to language acquisition and a wide range of developmental research, as well as examining all three domains in English, French, German and Chinese narratives. Hickmann's findings concern the rhythm of acquisition, the interplay among different factors (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic) determining children's uses, and universal versus variable aspects of acquisition. Her conclusions stress the importance of relating sentence and discourse determinants of acquisition in a crosslinguistic perspective. Children's Discourse will be welcomed by those working in psychology and language-related disciplines interested in first language acquisition.

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    Review of the hardback:'… this book remains one of the most impressive in the field of language acquisition. The richness of the data from four different languages is truly striking, and linguists in almost any subfield of linguistics are guaranteed to learn much of value from this book.'

    Source: Linguistics

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