Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition

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Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition is written by Caroline F. Rowland and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027261008 (ISBN 10) and 9789027261007 (ISBN 13).

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c) learn how to combine these representations in order to communicate effectively. These new findings have stimulated new theoretical perspectives that are more centered on explaining learning as a complex dynamic interaction between the child and her environment. This book is the first attempt to bring some of these new perspectives together in one place. It is a collection of essays written by a group of researchers who all take an approach centered on child-environment interaction, and all of whom have been influenced by the work of Elena Lieven, to whom this collection is dedicated.