Kindlicher Spracherwerb im Deutschen : Verläufe Forschungsmethoden Erklärungsansätze The volume begins with a review of the methods of modern language acquisition research and then presents the basic stages in the acquisition of phonological lexical grammatical and pragmatic skills. Following a detailed overview of the stages of language acquisition various explanatory models are presented. The volume also contains chapters addressing multilingualism in children and speech development disorders