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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2001
This enjoyable, informative book would serve as an excellent introductory text in a beginningcourse on language acquisition or linguistics. The content is somewhat narrower than the titlesuggests: The book deals exclusively with L1 acquisition, and its focus is Chomskyan syntax andUniversal Grammar, with a bit of semantics presented toward the end (i.e., phonology is notaddressed). Most of the data is from English, though other languages are explored (e.g., French,Japanese), with three very interesting chapters on American Sign Language.