Language acquisition
Here are entered works which discuss from the linguistic or psycholinguistic viewpoint the process of the acquisition of the native language in children. Works which discuss child language in general or within an educational framework, including general characteristics and usage, are entered under the heading Children -- Language.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Language acquisition -- Congresses
- Language acquisition -- Data processing
- Language acquisition -- North America
- Language acquisition -- Study and teaching
- Second language acquisition
- Acquisition of language
- Developmental linguistics
- Developmental psycholinguistics
- Language and languages -- Acquisition
- Language development in children
- Psycholinguistics, Developmental
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Roots of Language (originally published 1981; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Derek Bickerton (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)- Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Y. Tobin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2003; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), ed. by Andrea Tyler, Mari Takada, Yiyoung Kim, and Diana Marinova (PDF at Georgetown)
- Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition: Theory, Practice, and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1993; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1993), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by Stephen D. Krashen, Catherine Snow, Anna Uhl Chamot, J. Michael O'Malley, Cecily O'Neill, Deryn P. Verity, Shōkō Okazaki, Catherine Doughty, Ruth M. Jackson, Joan Morley, Karin C. Ryding, Suzanne Flynn, Elahe Mir-Djalali, James P. Lantolf, Ahmed Mouakket, Traute Taeschner, Jo Ann Crandall, Ikuo Koike, Louis A. Arena, Irene Thompson, Frederick J. Bosco, William Frawley, Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman, Virginia Mayer, Earl W. Stevick, Christina Kakava, Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, Reinhold Freudenstein, Aoi Tsuda, Josep Maria Artigal, Phyllis J. Dragonas, Marcel Danesi, Frederick H. Jackson, H. Douglas Brown, Dieter Kastovsky, Masaki Oda, Rebecca L. Oxford, Jeanette S. DeCarrico, James R. Nattinger, Anita Wenden, Linda S. Rutledge, and Jill Robbins (PDF at Georgetown)
- Developmental Psycholinguistics: Theory and Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1975; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1975), ed. by Daniel P. Dato (PDF at Georgetown)
- Educational Linguistics, Crosscultural Communication, and Global Interdependence (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1994), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
- Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition and Change (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), ed. by Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joe Salmons (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
- Plurilingualism and Multiliteracies: International Research on Identity Construction in Language Education (with chapters in English, German, and French; Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang AG, c2014), ed. by Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer and Eva-Maria Hennig
- Learners in Transition: Chinese Students' Journeys From EFL to ESL and EIL (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), by Yoke Sim Fong (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)
- Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- Journal of the European Second Language Association (2017-) (full serial archives)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Psycholinguistics- Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), by Angela D. Friederici, contrib. by Noam Chomsky (PDF files at MIT Press)
- Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition (Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1980), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
- Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1961), by Albert Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (second edition revised; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1927), by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, contrib. by Bronislaw Malinowski and F. G. Crookshank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Developmental Psycholinguistics: Theory and Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1975; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1975), ed. by Daniel P. Dato (PDF at Georgetown)
- Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)
- Report on The Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1951), ed. by John DeFrancis (PDF at Georgetown)
- Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2003; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), ed. by Andrea Tyler, Mari Takada, Yiyoung Kim, and Diana Marinova (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1995), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Brent Gallenberger, and Maggie Ronkin (PDF at Georgetown)
- Report of the Twelfth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Michael Zarechnak (PDF at Georgetown)
- Tales From the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and Anthropological Linguistic Analyses of Tales Told by Trobriand Children and Adults (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- Laboratory Phonology (2010-) (full serial archives)
- Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), by Angela D. Friederici, contrib. by Noam Chomsky (PDF files at MIT Press)
- Agreement Beyond Phi (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph #75; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Shigeru Miyagawa (PDF at dropbox.com)
- Agreement Beyond Phi (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph #75; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Shigeru Miyagawa (PDF at dropbox.com)
- Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (first edition, with minor corrections; 1998), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J. H. Jacobs (PDF and Postscript at dickgrune.com)
- Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Language (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012), ed. by Ad Foolen, Ulrike Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine, and Jordan Zlatev (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- Head Citations (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2002), by Kenneth Goldsmith (HTML here at Penn)
- Advancing Electromyographic Continuous Speech Recognition: Signal Preprocessing and Modeling (dissertation; Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing, 2014), by Michael Wand (PDF with commentary at kit.edu)
- Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines (1994), ed. by David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)
- The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
- Glottolog (online edition; 2023), ed. by Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath, and Sebastian Bank (HTML at glottolog.org)
- In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)
- The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
- Ethnologue (fifth edition; 1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Three Keys to Language (New York: Rinehart and Co., c1952), by Robert M. Estrich and Hans Sperber (page images at HathiTrust)
- Outline of Linguistic Analysis (Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1942), by Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Psycho-Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by George Kingsley Zipf (page images at HathiTrust)
- University of California Publications in Linguistics (partial serial archives)
- Adamitics, An Essay On First Man's Language; Or, The Easiest Way To Learn Foreign Languages, for The Use of Middle- And Highschools (Budapest: The author, 1914), by Anthony de Velics
- Anti-Chamberlain: Betrachtungen Eines Linguisten Über Houston Stewart Chamberlains "Kriegsaufsätze" und die Sprachbewertung im Allgemeinen (in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1918), by Leo Spitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Franz Nikolaus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Introduction to the Study of Language (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at Google; US access only)
- Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921), by Edward Sapir
- The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts from the Underground Grammarian, by Richard Mitchell (HTML with commentary at sourcetext.com)
- Less Than Words Can Say, by Richard Mitchell
- Marxism and Problems of Linguistics, by Joseph Stalin (HTML at marxists.org)
- Original Letters and Papers of the Late Viscount Strangford Upon Philological and Kindred Subjects (London: Trübner and Co., 1878), by Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe Strangford, ed. by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford
- Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Edward B. Tylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Causes and Cure of Armaments and War (London: P. S. King and Co., 1914), by Albert William Alderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
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