Ecology of Language Acquisition (Educational Linguistics)
Contributors: J.H. Leather (Editor); Jet van Dam (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781402010170
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language acquisition; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Linguistics; Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General
First sentence: Like any other scientific enterprise, the study of language acquisition (LA) evolves: the issues which dominate its agenda, the consensus on what constitute its 'data', the hypotheses that motivate its research programmes-all wax and wane in the cycles we know and expect in human affairs.