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Demonstrating how children learn to produce and distinguish between sounds, and their acquisition of words and meanings, this book explains their incredible mastery of language. William O'Grady provides readers with an overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate this mysterious phenomenon.

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This engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children, discussing how they learn to produce and distinguish among sounds, and their acquisition of words and meanings, and of the rules for building sentences. William O'Grady provides readers with a highly readable overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate this mysterious phenomenon. It will be of great interest to anyone--parent or student--wishing to find out how children acquire language.

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William O'Grady is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii.

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  • PublisherCambridge University Press
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 052182494X
  • ISBN 13 9780521824941
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages248
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