Language acquisition - any good sites for info

[popsycal]

Didn't put this on special needs or behaviour and development as it isn't advice I am after.

I am just intrigued about how children acquire language.....I should know about this (touched on it at uni....LOL) but DS's new found speech is intriguing me and I would love to know a bit more!

TIA

Hi their just a though no specific sites to recomend but like you uni history, would be looking up psychology social learing theory. and babysigns .com have some good stuff on language develoment. oh yeah and try makaton i think that they will go beyond signing.....

No advice on websites, but the local language acquisition expert recommends David Crystal's "Listen to Your Child" and "Pathways to Language:
From Fetus to Adolescent" by Karmiloff and Karmiloff-Smith as books for interested laypeople.

Stephen Pinker "The Language Instinct" Read that years ago before having ds1- didn't realise I would have a child without any langauge instinct.

oooh i read the language instinct at uni - am sure i have a copy somewhere.........