Child Language:

• is a comprehensive introduction to child language, introducing students to the key theories of language acquisition and teaching them skills for analyzing children's language
• covers the core areas of language acquisition: phonological, semantic, syntactic, morphological and discourse development, the bilingual child and language development in exceptional circumstances
• draws on a range of real texts and data
• provides classic readings by the key names in the discipline: J. Becker, Roger Brown, R. Ely, Jean Berko-Gleason, J.N. Jorgenson, D. Messer, S. Pinker, and N. Smith.