An up-to-date introduction to language acquisition for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science.

• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Preface
• chapter 1 Introduction
• chapter 2 The Acquisition of Sound Systems
• chapter 3 Morphological Development
• chapter 4 The Acquisition of Syntax
• chapter 5 Further Aspects of Syntactic and Semantic Development
• chapter 6 Cognition, Environment and Language Learning
• chapter 7 Performance Development
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Bibliography
• index