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July 1999
240 pp., 10 illus.
$25.00/£18.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-58180-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-58180-6

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Cloth (1996)
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Bradford Books
Language, Speech, and Communication
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The Origins of Grammar
Evidence from Early Language Comprehension
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

The authors of The Origins of Grammar have pioneered one of the most important methodological advances in language learning in the past decade: the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, which can be used to assess lexical and syntactic knowledge in children as young as thirteen months. They describe a theory of language learning that emphasizes the role of multiple cues and forces in development. They further show how infants shift their reliance on different aspects of the linguistic input, moving from a bias to attend to prosodic information to a reliance on semantic information, and finally to a reliance on the syntax itself.

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"A groundbreaking and well-written book on contemporary methods and issues in child language research. . . . invaluable for graduate students and instructors interested in a clear and timely survey of current research trends."
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