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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: THE GROWTH OF GRAMMAR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

Kamil Ud Deen
Kamil Ud Deen
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University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: THE GROWTH OF GRAMMAR. Maria Teresa Guasti. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xvi + 474. $55.00 cloth.

The interrelation between language acquisition and linguistic theory has long been recognized as a fruitful area of research. Guasti provides a detailed and comprehensive review of the major areas of the development of a first language and its relation to linguistic theory. The book consists of 11 chapters on the development of all areas of grammar, with an obvious emphasis on syntax. Each chapter begins with an overview of the theoretical tools necessary to understand the topic of the chapter, followed by the empirical phenomena, and a discussion that integrates the theory and the data.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 482 - 483
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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