Language acquisition / edited by Susan Foster-Cohen. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xix, 338 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Palgrave advances in linguistics . - Palgrave advances in linguistics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Word learning and the origins of phonological systems / Marilyn Vihman -- Cracking the language code : processing strategies in first language acquisition / Ann M. Peters -- The inevitability of child directed speech / Matthew Saxton -- Universal grammar approaches to language acquisition / Maria Teresa Guasti -- Second language acquisition / Susan Gass -- Language and the many faces of emotion / Judy S. Reilly -- Complements enable representation of the contents of false beliefs : the evolution of a theory of theory of mind / Jill G. De Villiers and Peter A. de Villiers -- Going beyond semantics : the development of pragmatic enrichment / Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Ira A. Noveck -- The acquisition of phrasal vocabulary / Koenraad Kuiper, Georgie Columbus and Norbert Schmitt -- Language development in simultaneous bilingual children / Natascha Müller -- Universals and cross-linguistic variability in children's discourse / Maya Hickmann -- Trends in research on narrative development / Ruth A. Berman -- Family literacy activities : what is, what ought to be and the role of parents' ideas / Stuart McNaughton, Meaola Amituanai-Toloa and 'Ema Wolfgramm-Foliaki.

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