The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition : Volume 4

ISBN-13: 9780805801064 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 470 str.

Slobin; Dan Isaac Slobin

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"In his first chapter, Slobin says that one of the goals in these volumes on crosslinguistic studies of acquisition has been to show how much fruit there is beyond the core areas examined within a UG framework. Actually, what these volumes, and this volume in particular, have provided is a veritable feast."
—First Language.

FOR VOLUMES 4 AND 5: "The two volumes under review constitute, in short, a very rich source of information, ideas, questions and challenges to our standard assumptions, many of which are unreflectingly grounded in patterns familiar from English and the acquisition of English. The books deserve to be widely consulted and read; they should provide a long-lasting stimulus for our field."
—Child Language

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. L. Dasinger, Issues in the Acquisition of Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian: A Crosslinguistic Comparison. J. Toivainen, The Acquisition of Finnish. U. Stephany, The Acquisition of Greek. Y-J. Kim, Acquisition of Korean.

O autorze

Dan Isaac Slobin