Description - The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition by Dan Isaac Slobin
Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups - Finnish, Greek and Korean. The chapters are selective, critical reviews rather than exhaustive summaries of the course of development of each language. Authors approach the language in question as a case study in a potential crosslinguistic typology of acquisitional problems, considering those data which continue to issues of general theoretical concern in developmental psycholinguistics and linguistic theory.
Each chapter, therefore, provides the following: grammatical sketch of language - brief grammatical sketch of the language or language group, presenting those linguistic facts which are relevant to the developmental analysis; sources of evidence -summary of basic sources of evidence, characterizing methods of gathering data and listing key references; overall course of development - brief summary of the overall course of development in the language or language group, giving an idea of the general problems posed to the child in acquiring a language of this type, summarizing typical errors, domains of relatively error-free acquisition, and the timing of acquisition - areas of the grammar that show relatively precocious or delayed development in crosslinguistic perspective; data - specific developmental aspects of the language examined in depth, depending on each individual language and available acquisition data; and conclusions - an interpretive summary of theoretical points raised above, attending to general principles of language development and linguistic organization suggested by the study of a language of this type, plus comparisons with development of other languages.
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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition: Volume 1: the Data
