The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

This volume, the 5th and last in the highly regarded series, extends the findings reported on specific languages in earlier volumes with treatments of theoretical issues that cut across different languages. For researchers and students of child language.

Dan Isaac Slobin

Contents: Preface. D.I. Slobin, The Universal, the Typological, and the Particular in Acquisition. S. Choi, Language-Specific Input and Early Semantic Development: Evidence From Children Learning Korean. A.M. Peters, Language Typology, Prosody, and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes. E.V.M. Lieven, Variation in a Crosslinguistic Context. D.I. Slobin, The Origins of Grammaticizable Notions: Beyond the Individual Mind.