Child Language

Jean Stilwell Peccei, formerly Roehampton University, UK.

• Unit 1: Starting to Talk Unit 2: Finding Out What Words Mean Unit 3: Building Up a Dictionary Unit 4: Putting Together Sentences Unit 5: Building Longer Sentences Unit 6: Saying No and Asking Questions Unit 7: Becoming a Word Maker Unit 8: Having a Conversation Unit 9: Learning to Get the Sounds Right Unit 10: Still Learning: Gogs and Dogs Unit 11: Exploring Children's Language: Projects Unit 12: Going on From Here: Further Study and Reading Corpus of Child Language Data Answers to Further Exercises

`Particularly suitable for my first year students, who have little background in linguistics. Genuine data and practical exercises are among the strengths of this invaluable workbook.' - Jamal Ardehali, Glasgow University'Excellent as a pre-course introduction to language acquisition; goodpractical exercises to assimilate information.' - G.Stoneham, St Mark and St John College, Plymouth