Volume 1: The Data. Contents: D.I. Slobin, Introduction: Why Study Acquisition Crosslinguistically? Part I:Spoken Languages.J.G. de Villiers, P.A. de Villiers, The Acquisition of English. A.E. Mills, The Acquisition of German. E.V. Clark, The Acquisition of Romance, with Special Reference to French. E. Ochs, Variation and Error: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Acquisition in Samoa. A.A. Aksu-Koc, D.I. Slobin, The Acquistion of Turkish. Part II:Signed Languages.E.L. Newport, R.P. Meier, The Acquisition of American Sign Language. Volume 2: Theoretical Issues. Contents: J.R. Johnston, Cognitive Prerequisites: The Evidence from Children Learning English. T. Givon, Function, Structure, and Language Acquisition. A.M. Peters, Language Segmentation: Operating Principles for the Perception and Analysis of Language. B. MacWhinney, Hungarian Language Acquisition as an Exemplification of a General Model of Grammatical Development. D.I. Slobin, Crosslinguistic Evidence for the Language-Making Capacity. M. Bowerman, What Shapes Children's Grammars?
Reviews for Volumes 1 and 2 "...[Slobin] has really cornered the
market, for these volumes will be a standard reference for years to
come. The handbook elevates Slobin's method of crosslinguistic
correlation to a new dimension...by constructing an extremely
informative and readable reference manual...Dan Slobin has a great
love for human language in all of its incarnations...[his book] is
a gold mine of information, and even skimming through the pages is
the cause of many worthwhile linguistic daydreams."
—Contemporary Psychology"...The books promise to become one of the
most quoted descriptive sources of the field during the coming
decade ...they represent the best one can obtain from diary-like
and more sophisticated observational studies in several
languages...the empirical chapters provide excellent reading...the
two volumes are indeed on the way to becoming classics."
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition"...the reader is richly
rewarded with an in-depth look at current accounts of child
language development....the special significance of these volumes
lies in situating the discussion at a much more sophisticated level
than that suggested by such oppositions as nature and nurture, or
nativist and empiricist. To anyone concerned about language
teaching and language learning this tangible result of Slobin's
original vision cannot help but be eye-opening."
—Modern Language Journal
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