Growing Up With Language: How Children Learn To Talk

by Naomi S. Baron

An analysis of how children learn to master language explores how each child charts a unique course through this difficult process based on personality and family interaction and offers advice to parents on how to better facilitate the process.

Genres: Parenting, Linguistics

269 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1992

About the author

Professor Baron is interested in electronically-mediated communication, writing and technology, the history of English, and higher education. A former Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Fellow, she has published seven books. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World won the English-Speaking Union’s Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award for 2008. Her new book, Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World, will be out in early 2015.

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Follows the language development of three typical kids. She presents them as real kids, but I believe they are probably composites of real kids,due to the fact that she contradicts herself twice. (The first time she says that Alex is vacationing with his parents and a physician is not present, despite the fact that Alex's father is a physician. The second time she says the as a toddler Alex watched the Star Wars movie on TV, later she says that he only watched educational kids' TV.)