Growing Up With Language How Children Learn

Linguistics professor Naomi Baron applies her professional expertise to the study of how children master the skill of language, a book that is "not just accessible but actually enjoyable for the average reader . . . (with) useful information on how humans create speech and language" (Bloomsbury Review).

Naomi S. Baron is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at The American University in Washington, D.C. A Guggenheim fellow, she is the author of four previous books about language and has taught at Brown University, Emory University, and Southwestern University. Dr. Baron resides with her husband and their son Aneil in Bethesda, Maryland.

Preface	p. xi
Cracking the Code: The Journey into Language	p. 1
The Roots of Language: From Birth to First Words	p. 25
Language on a Shoestring: From First Words to Grammar	p. 61
Why You Don't Like My Chooses?: Grammatical Orienteering	p. 93
Bags on the Banks: Orienteering in Meaning, Sound, and Conversation	p. 123
Zuckerman's Famous Airplane: Language Awareness	p. 159
Beyond Elemeno: Emerging Literacy	p. 191
Epilogue	p. 221
Notes	p. 229
Index	p. 261
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