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Publication details [#12721]

Berman, Ruth A. 1993. Crosslinguistic perspectives on native language acquisition. In Hyltenstam, Kenneth and Åke Viberg. Progression & regression in language. Sociocultural, neuropsychologial & linguistic perspectives. Cambridge University Press. pp. 245–266.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition

Annotation

The author examines three orientations of current crosslinguistic acquisition research as background to a developmental perspective on acquisition across and within languages. The focus is on mechanisms of acquisition, endstate grammars and linguistic functions and the development of discourse respectively.