ABSTRACT

Building on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory content, more exercises and summaries at the end of each unit.
Child Language:
* introduces students to key areas involved in the study of children's language: vocabulary development, word and sentence structure, conversational skills and pronunciation
* contains a corpus of children's language
* includes suggestions for project work.

chapter 1|6 pages

STARTING TO TALK

chapter 2|7 pages

FINDING OUT WHAT WORDS MEAN

chapter 3|8 pages

BUILDING UP A DICTIONARY

chapter 4|7 pages

PUTTING TOGETHER SENTENCES

chapter 5|8 pages

BUILDING LONGER SENTENCES

chapter 6|9 pages

SAYING ‘NO’ AND ASKING QUESTIONS

chapter 7|8 pages

BECOMING A WORD MAKER

chapter 8|7 pages

HAVING A CONVERSATION

chapter 9|7 pages

LEARNING TO GET THE SOUNDS RIGHT

chapter 10|7 pages

STILL LEARNING: ‘DOGS’ AND ‘GOGS’

chapter 11|10 pages

EXPLORING CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE: PROJECTS