Skip to main content Accessibility help
Internet Explorer 11 is being discontinued by Microsoft in August 2021. If you have difficulties viewing the site on Internet Explorer 11 we recommend using a different browser such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Mozilla Firefox.

Online ordering is currently unavailable due to technical issues. We apologise for any delays responding to customers while we resolve this. For further updates please visit our website: https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/technical-incident . Due to planned maintenance there will be periods of time where the website may be unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Home
> Subjects
> First Language Acquisition

First Language Acquisition

Coming soon in June 2024

Authors

Eve V. Clark, Stanford University, California

Description

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook provides a chronological account of first language acquisition, showing how young children acquire language in their conversational interactions with adult speakers. It draws on diary records and experimental studies from leaders in the field to document different stages and different aspects of what children master. Successive chapters detail infants' and young children's progression from attending to adult faces, gaze, and hand motions, to their first attempts at communicating with gaze and gesture, then…

  • Add bookmark
  • Cite
  • Share

Key features

  • Provides detailed examples of child usage to connect the theory with the data
  • Presents different perspectives on language use, with examples, and clear linguistic descriptions
  • Includes links to databases and programs for analysis, along with a list of resources for student projects/research

Keywords

About the book

About Contact and help Publish with us Accessibility Legal notices
Join us online
For research journals and books visit Cambridge Core [Opens in a new window]
© Cambridge University Press 2024