Child Language: Acquisition And Growth (original) (raw)

(paperback), 978-0-521-44922-9 (paperback). Reviewed by Paul Thomas SIL International Child Language: Acquisition and Growth is mostly a survey of the literature surrounding child language acquisition. Assuming little prior linguistic knowledge on the reader's part, Lust spends the first four chapters defining the problem of language acquisition and developing a theory to account for this acquisition. Her basic hypothesis is that children are born with a language facility (LF). That is, the brain is programmed at birth with all the structures necessary to do linguistic computation.