Product Description: The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. Although there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong, there is much less agreement as to how children really learn language...read more

Product Description: For years it was thought that children learn to speak their first language from their parents, building up from words to phrases to full sentences. But linguistics have since widely disagreed, and Ray Cattell's new volume tells us why...read more