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Author:   Dan Isaac Slobin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Weight:   1.474kg
ISBN:  

9780898593679

ISBN 10:   0898593670
Pages:   972
Publication Date:   01 September 1986
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Volume 1: The Data. Contents: D.I. Slobin, Introduction: Why Study Acquisition Crosslinguistically? Part I:Spoken Languages.J.G. de Villiers, P.A. de Villiers, The Acquisition of English. A.E. Mills, The Acquisition of German. E.V. Clark, The Acquisition of Romance, with Special Reference to French. E. Ochs, Variation and Error: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Acquisition in Samoa. A.A. Aksu-Koc, D.I. Slobin, The Acquistion of Turkish. Part II:Signed Languages.E.L. Newport, R.P. Meier, The Acquisition of American Sign Language. Volume 2: Theoretical Issues. Contents: J.R. Johnston, Cognitive Prerequisites: The Evidence from Children Learning English. T. Givon, Function, Structure, and Language Acquisition. A.M. Peters, Language Segmentation: Operating Principles for the Perception and Analysis of Language. B. MacWhinney, Hungarian Language Acquisition as an Exemplification of a General Model of Grammatical Development. D.I. Slobin, Crosslinguistic Evidence for the Language-Making Capacity. M. Bowerman, What Shapes Children's Grammars?

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Reviews for Volumes 1 and 2 ...[Slobin] has really cornered the market, for these volumes will be a standard reference for years to come. The handbook elevates Slobin's method of crosslinguistic correlation to a new dimension...by constructing an extremely informative and readable reference manual...Dan Slobin has a great love for human language in all of its incarnations...[his book] is a gold mine of information, and even skimming through the pages is the cause of many worthwhile linguistic daydreams. -Contemporary Psychology ...The books promise to become one of the most quoted descriptive sources of the field during the coming decade ...they represent the best one can obtain from diary-like and more sophisticated observational studies in several languages...the empirical chapters provide excellent reading...the two volumes are indeed on the way to becoming classics. -Studies in Second Language Acquisition ...the reader is richly rewarded with an in-depth look at current accounts of child language development....the special significance of these volumes lies in situating the discussion at a much more sophisticated level than that suggested by such oppositions as nature and nurture, or nativist and empiricist. To anyone concerned about language teaching and language learning this tangible result of Slobin's original vision cannot help but be eye-opening. -Modern Language Journal

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