‘Engaging as it is, Child Language opens the door of the fascinating area of language acquisition to students who might think that child language is mere imitation and as such, not worth investigating. Most importantly, the reader is not a passive recipient of knowledge in this book but is invited to actively observe the language acquisition process and experience real data.’

– Linguist List

Jean Stilwell Peccei is a Visiting Lecturer in the English Language & Linguistics programme at Roehampton University. She is the author of Child Language 2^nd Edition (Routledge Language Workbooks series, 1999) and Pragmatics (Routledge Language Workbooks series, 1999) and co-author of Language, Society and Power 2^nd Edition (Routledge 2004).