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Essay Questions

1. How has the ‘nature’ versus ‘nurture’ question changed in recent years?
2. What is a ‘theory of mind’, and why is this an important question?
3. Outline and explain at least one post-Chomsky trend.
4. Discuss the role of caregivers in children’s acquisition of speech.
5. At what age, and how, do children begin acquiring language?
6. Why are verbs important in the acquisition of language?
7. Why are verbs important in the comprehension of sentences?
8. How do people select words when they produce sentences?

Audio

Track 1 Jean Aitchison, author, explains her interest in psycholinguistics and how her successful textbook came to be written.

Track 2 The author discusses the planning and writing of the textbook.

Track 3 What is new in the 5th edition? What are the emerging debates in the field?