Author: Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte de
Title: How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1999). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiv,274 pp, Translated by M.B. DeBevoise.. Minor rubbing. A small mark to bottom page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Infant Does Not Talk, But...; The Emergence of Speech; The Communicative Universe of the Baby; Discovering the Meaning of Words: Nine to Seventeen Months; The First Lexical Steps: Eleven to Eighteen Months; To Each Baby His Own Style; Languages, Cultures & Children; Speech Becomes Language: Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months; Conclusion. Appendices.

Keywords: Language Acquisition, Cognition, Cognitive, Psychology, Speech, Child, Children, ,