1. First Language Journal of Child LanguageandLanguage Acquisitionare journals devoted to language acquisition. Cognition also regularly carries important articles on acquisition as do several linguistic journals most prominentlyLanguage Linguistic InquiryandLingua. For those who wish to pursue the development of phonetics and phonology several chapters in Erika Hoff and Marilyn Schatz (eds.) provide overviews 45as do chapters by B. Elan. Dresher and Katherine Demuth.46Daniel Slobin has edited a series of collections under the general titleThe crosslinguistic study of language acquisition.47Although many of the literature reviews therein are no longer up to date they provide a way into the literature on various languages and language families. Thomas Roeper and Edwin Williams (eds.)48is an early collection of papers in the principles and parameters framework. A volume edited by Barbara Lust Margarita Suner and John Whitman (eds)49is a somewhat more update collection. The development of pragmatic abilities has been a recent growth area in the study of child language well illustrated by the papers in Irene Krömer (ed.).50Those interested in practical work on language acquisition can consult Dana McDaniel Cecile McKee and Helen Cairns (eds.) on experimental methodology51and William Snyder on the analysis of naturalistic speech.52Corpora of such speech are available on the CHILDES data base.
2. Semantics in Acquisition
3. The Ontogeny of English Phrase Structure: The First Phase