Susan H. Foster, Susan H. Foster-Cohen. The Communicative Competence Of Young Children: A Modular Approach (Studies In Language And Linguistics). London, Longman Pub Group, 1994.

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.