In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They
argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and
the computational system – must reside, for reasons of
conceptual necessity, within the performance systems. AUTHOR:
Clark, Eve V. TITLE: First Language Acquisition PUBLISHER:
Cambridge University Press YEAR: 2009 Leah R. Paltiel-
Gedalyovich, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Clark's
revised edition of ''Language acquisition'' is designed as an
introductory textbook for students of first language
acquisition. In an introductory chapter, Clark raises the
general issues and questions related to the study of first
language acquisition, illustrating her discussion with examples
from a variety of languages. She explicitly states her
orientation, namely language in use; the influence of
environment and specifically linguistic input on language
development. The book is then divided into four sections:
Getting started, Constructions and meanings, Using language, and
Processing in a