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How Children Learn Language

Authors

William O'Grady, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Published 2005

Description

Adults tend to take language for granted - until they have to learn a new one. Then they realize how difficult it is to get the pronunciation right, to acquire the meaning of thousands of new words, and to learn how those words are put together to form sentences. Children, however, have mastered language before they can tie their shoes. In this engaging and accessible book, William O'Grady explains how this happens, discussing how children learn to produce and distinguish…

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Key features

  • Written in an accessible style and assumes no knowledge of linguistics, so accessible to the general reader and to parents with young children
  • Deals comprehensively with all the major phenomena involved in language development: sounds, words, meanings and structure
  • Draws on the latest research in the field, giving readers an appreciation not just of 'what' we know about language acquisition, but 'how' we know it

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