Using detailed analyses of cross-generational case studies, Smith explains the acquisition of language phonology by children.

The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and t

Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use

The publication of this edited volume comes at a time when interest in the acquisition of phonology by both children learning a first language and adults learni