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Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language

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This volume introduces the field of child language development studies, and presents hypotheses in an accessible, largely non-technical language, aiming to demo

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children int