Bücher der Reihe Studies in Language and Linguistics

This text provides a comprehensive description of expressions in conversation, such as apologizing, thanking, accepting and refusing, drawing upon original research data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.