This?text?is?an?up-to-date?introduction?to?language?acquisition.?designed?to?meet?the?needs?of?advanced?undergraduates?and?beginning?graduate?students?in?linguistics?and?cognitive?science.?It?is?the?first?language?acquisition?text?to?be?written?from?the?perspctive?of?recent?theoretical?linguistics,?and?uses?Chomskyan?generative?grammar?as?a?framework?for?de*ion.?Taking?models?and?analyses?from?generative?phonology,?morphology,?syntax?and?semantics,?Professor?goodluck?describes?children's?language?acquisition?using?examples?from?a?variety?of?languages.?Further?chapters?take?up?central?questions?concerning?cognitive?mechanisms?by?which?children?process?language?and?form?rules,?the?nature?of?the?input?to?the?language?learner,?and?the?relation?between?language?development?and?other?aspects?of?cognitive?development.?The?book?is?extensively?illustrated?with?models?and?figures,?and?each?chapter?is?followed?by?questions?for?discussion?and?suggestions?for?further?reading.?It?also?includes?a?full?bibliography.