Publisher's Synopsis
This volume makes available in book form, complete with index, the twentieth anniversary issue of the Journal of Child Language. The editors have brought together some of the leading international scholars in the field of child language research, including Elizabeth Bates, Martin Braine, Andrew Radford and Steven Pinker. All the papers have been commissioned for the volume, and careful selection has ensured balanced coverage of the key areas in child language development-phonology, the lexicon, morphology, syntax and pragmatics. The volume is characterised by a rigorous approach to the treatment of descriptive data, coupled with theoretical insights which point the way forward for researchers.
