The Child’s Path to Spoken Language

by John L. Locke

Progressing gradually from babbling to meaningful sentences is something most babies do naturally. But why do they? John L. Locke’s answer constitutes a fascinating journey along the path of language development, a tour that takes in all the stops―neurological and perceptual, social and linguistic―that mark the way to intelligible speech. A major synthesis of the latest research on early language acquisition, this volume revises the way we understand ourselves and our approach to speech.

536 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1993