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Maya Hickmann, Children's discourse: Person, space and time across languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2006

Asta Cekaite
Asta Cekaite
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Department of Child Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, SE-581 83, Sweden, astce@tema.liu.se
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Maya Hickmann, Children's discourse: Person, space and time across languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.vii, 392. Hb $55.

This monograph explores the universality and variability of the language acquisition processes. Arguing that universal learning mechanisms, on the one hand, or innate capacities within specific domains, on the other, are incomplete as theoretical explanations, this book addresses two major questions regarding first language acquisition: What structural and functional factors determine the acquisition process? What are the universal and language-specific aspects of this process? (p. 1).

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , November 2006 , pp. 750 - 753
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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