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First language acquisition

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractThis article reviews current approaches to first language acquisition, arguing in favor of the theory that attributes to the child an innate knowledge of universal grammar. Such knowledge can accommodate the systematic nature of children's non‐adult linguistic behaviors.
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First Language Attrition and Developmental Language Disorder

2019
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is an impairment specific to language that affects about 5% to 7% of all children, monolingual as well as bilingual. In this chapter, we aim to demonstrate that knowing more about attrition is important for accurately diagnosing bilingual children whose language abilities raise concerns and who may have DLD.
Blom, E., Boerma, T., de Jong, J.
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Building Language Competence in First Language Acquisition

European Review, 2008
Most accounts of child language acquisition use as analytic tools adult-like syntactic categories and grammars with little concern for whether they are psychologically real for young children. However, when approached from a cognitive and functional theoretical perspective, recent research has demonstrated that children do not operate initially with ...
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First Language Acquisition

2016
Humans acquire language naturally, namely without specific instruction, by being exposed to it and by interacting with other human beings. According to the generativist enterprise, humans are endowed with a system of knowledge on the form of possible human languages (Universal Grammar).
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First Language Loss

Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Erstsprachverlust: Reflexausdruck, Schlagfertigkeit und Lautmalerei Sowohl in der Zwischenstudie (LPLP 17/3: 225-237) wie in der Hauptstudie wurde festgestellt, daß es den deutschsprachigen Versuchspersonen nicht möglich war, ohne Zuhilfenahme der Zweitsprache ihr Interview zu beenden.
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A First Language

1973
Also published 1973 by the Harvard University Press, Cambridge ...
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