Elena Lieven

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches: generativist and constructivist. Meer

A collection of innovative studies that explore the theory of how children and adolescents learn language, and how they use language to build knowledge. Meer