Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: First Language Acquisition
6. 1. Theoretical approaches in language acquisition research 7
7. 2. Early child grammars 35
8. 3. The grammar of a three year-old 67
9. Part II: Developmental Dysphasia
10. 4. Grammar acquisition and dysphasia (with particular reference to the research situation in West Germany) 101
11. 5. Grammatical units 127
12. 6. Selected areas of the inflectional system 153
13. 7. Word order 187
14. 8. Learnability theory and the acquisition of grammar 223
15. 9. Appendix 235
16. Bibliography 337
17. Index 345