Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theore

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In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children int

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Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language