Supplementary Reading
Bloom, Paul 1996 Overview:
Controversies in Language Acquisition in Bloom, P. (ed)
Pgs 5-48 (A good OVERVIEW) CHILDES database web site
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/
(Particularly for TRANSCRIPTION and DATA ANALYSIS)
Cook, V.J./ Newson, Mark 2001 [1988] Chomsky’s
Universal Grammar: An Introduction Malden: Blackwell
Ch 3 ”General Concepts of Language Acquisition”
Pgs 75-132 (CHOMSKY’S VIEWS ON UG/ NEGATIVE EVIDENCE
etc)
Crain, Stephen/ Lillo-Martin, Diane 1999
An Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition
Malden: Blackwell. Part I “Linguistic Knowledge”
Pgs 3-70 (Particularly for STAGES OF L1A, Chapter 3)
Fromkin, Victoria/ Rodman,
Robert 1998 [1974] An Introduction to Language
Harcourt. Chapter 8 “Language Acquistion”
Pgs 318-358 (STAGES and THEORIES OF L1A)
Guasti, Maria Teresa 2002 Language
Acquisition. The Growth of Grammar. Cambridge, MA/ London:
The MIT Press (An excellent text, if a bit detailed
for our purposes)
O’Grady, William/ Dobrovolsky, Michael
1992 Contemporary Linguistic Analysis. An Introduction.
Toronto: Copp Clark. Chapter 12 “Language Acquisition:
The Emergence of a Grammar” Pgs 399-434
Piaget, Jean The Child’s Conception
of the World. London/ New York: Harcourt (For general
interest)
Pinker, Steven 1995 The Language Instinct.
How the Mind Creates Language. New York: HarperPerennial
(For general interest)
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