Author : Ray Cattell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441133232
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Book Synopsis Children's Language: Revised Edition by : Ray Cattell
Download or read book Children's Language: Revised Edition written by Ray Cattell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. Although there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong, there is much less agreement as to how children really learn language. This revised edition of Ray Cattell's bestselling textbook aims to give readers the background necessary to form their own views on the debate, and includes accessible summaries of key thinkers, including Chomsky, Halliday, Karmiloff-Smith and Piaget.