Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Foundations: 2. The history of child language studies; 3. Stages of language acquisition; 4. Explanation and language acquisition; Part II. Milestones: 5. The period of prelinguistic development; 6. The period of single-word utterances; 7. The period of the first word combinations; 8. The period of simple sentences: phonological and semantic acquisition; 9. The period of simple sentences: acquisition of grammatical morphemes; 10. Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Author index; General index.

Reviews

"Ingram's book has many fine facets...it stands alone as an intelligent summary of work in the normal acquisitional field." Language "Reading this book will thus deepen our overall understanding of language acquisition." Harvard Educational Review