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Publication details [#577]

Wanner, Eric and Lila R. Gleitman, eds. 1982. Language acquisition: The state of the art. Cambridge University Press. x + 532 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

language acquisition

Articles in this volume

Shatz, Marilyn. On mechanisms of language acquisition: Can features of the communicative environment account for development? 102–127

Slobin, Dan I. Universal and particular in the acquisition of language. 128–170

Bates, Elizabeth and Brian MacWhinney. Functionalist approaches to grammar. 173–218

Braine, Martin D.S. and Judith A. Hardy. On what case categories there are, why they are, and how they develop: An amalgam of a priori considerations, speculation, and evidence from children. 219–239

Roeper, Thomas. The role of universals in the acquisition of gerunds. 267–287

Clark, Eve V. The young word maker: A case study of innovation in the child's lexicon. 390–425

Bever, Thomas G. Some implications of the nonspecific bases of language. 429–449