A First Language: The Early Stages - Hardcover

Brown, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674732456 ISBN 13: 9780674732452

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1973

Synopsis

For many years, Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development.

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Review:

An important landmark that should serve as an exciting introduction to the field, as well as a model for students on how to do rewarding exploratory research...A splendid source book for future students and researchers.

A fascinating record...Linguistic and behavioral description has never been accomplished so meaningfully.

A unique and impressive book in terms of both content and style. It is a scholarly work, part history, part review, but more than just a chronological or even critical survey of the research and theories of a particular group of people during a particular period of time. Brown discusses the major issues in depth and presents new analyses of the available naturalistic data. He questions each interpretation but always remains close to the data when deciding the adequacies of any particular characterization.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0674732456
• ISBN 13: 9780674732452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 460