How Children Learn Language

How Children Learn Language by William O'grady

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 among sounds, their acquisition of words and meanings, and their mastery of the rules for building sentences. How Children Learn Language provides readers with a highly readable overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate his mysterious phenomenon. It will be of great interest to anyone - parent or student - wishing to find out how children acquire language.

'The engaging style of the book, and its accessibility combined with its scientific rigour make this volume ideal for a lay audience and for introductory undergraduate courses to language acquisition' The Journal of Child Language

William O'Grady is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii.

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ISBN 13	9780521531924
ISBN 10	0521531926
Title	How Children Learn Language
Author	William O'grady
Series	Cambridge Approaches To Linguistics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2005-01-06
Number of pages	246
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