Language and Maturation

by Paula Menyuk

Book Overview

This book offers a unique overview of the current literature of language development. Beginning with an outline of the maturational changes that occur in linguistic knowledge in the period from birth to adulthood, it goes on to discuss the suggested causes for the changes and the controversies about the suggested causes. The theory of generative grammar advanced by Noam Chomsky was responsible for much of the excitement and interest that the study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262131323
• ISBN13: 9780262131322
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.