Language Acquisition

By: Foster-Cohen, Susan

Book Overview

Language learners come in all sizes. Children learn one language; they learn many. Older children and adults add languages. Some children learn language against the odds, faced as they are by developmental difficulties of many kinds. How do learners meet these different language acquisition challenges? What role does the ability to read the minds of others play in the development of syntax? Do children know they are learning words when they do it?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230500307
• ISBN13: 9780230500303
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"