Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction…

Sixteen children, aged 7:8 to 9:10, learned 2 miniature languages differing in word order. Children found the Subject-Object-Verb language easier than the Verb-Subject-Object language; they also made more suffix errors and fewer word order errors in the Subject-Object-Verb language. (Author/DB)

A cross-linguistic study of negation in English, French, and Korean examined the relationship of transparency and position of marker to acquisition of negation. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of nine children: two native Korean-speakers, two American speakers of English, and five speakers of French. Five of the children were studied for…