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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      09 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511554377
      9780521484640
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554377
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.525kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Developmental Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (65)
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    Subjects:
    Developmental Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (65)
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    Without words, children can't talk about people, places, things, actions, relations, or states, and they have no grammatical rules. Without words, there would be no sound structure, no word structure, and no syntax. The lexicon is central in language, and in language acquisition. Eve Clark argues for this centrality and for the general principles of conventionality and contrast at the core of language acquisition. She looks at the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings, and how they map their meanings on to forms. The book is unusual in dealing with data from a wide variety of languages, in its emphasis on the general principles children rely on as they analyse complex word forms, and in the broad perspective it takes on lexical acquisition.

    Reviews

    ‘A landmark book in the study of the lexicon, with special significance for acquisition theory. The book will be of interest to a broad range of linguists, psycholinguists, and developmental psychologists, as well as people working in other areas of cognitive science and education.’

    Dan I. Slobin - University of California, Berkeley

    ‘A contribution of great interest; required reading for everyone in the field of language acquisition who is interested in the lexicon.’

    Lila R. Gleitman - University of Pennsylvania

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