Matthew Saxton - Child Language: Acquisition and Development

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I have had much help and encouragement in the writing and updating of this book from family, friends and former colleagues in academia. It has also been gratifying to receive help from colleagues further afield, in the wider world of child language research, many of whom I have yet to meet, but all of whom responded to my queries with considerable generosity of spirit. In particular, I should like to thank Ayhan Aksu-Ko, Shanley Allen, Ben Ambridge, Misha Becker, Heike Behrens, Ruth Berman, Raymond Bertram, Joan Bybee, Robin Campbell, Shula Chiat, Anne Christophe, Alex Clark, Eve Clark, Gina Conti-Ramsden, Annick de Houwer, Holly Garwood, Jonathan Ginzburg, Roberta Golinkoff, Marisa Teresa Guasti, Bart Guerts, Margaret Harris, Maya Hickmann, Josephine Howard, Christine Howe, Dick Hudson, Jane Hurry, Evan Kidd, Sarah King, Mike Kirkman, Shalom Lappin, Elena Lieven, Brian MacWhinney, Michael Maratsos, Theo Marinis, Chloe Marshall, Cecile McKee, Evelyne Mercure, David Messer, Gary Morgan, Vicki Murphy, Letitia Naigles, Keith Nelson, David Olson, Mitsuhiko Ota, Anna Papafragou, Lisa Pearl, Colin Phillips, Li Ping, Dorit Ravid, Maritza Rivera Gaxiola, Stuart Rosen, Caroline Rowland, Jenny Saffran, Colin Saxton, Susan Sciama, Yasuhiro Shirai, Melanie Soderstrom, Morag Stuart, Mike Swan, Michael Tomasello, Michael Ullman, Angelika van Hout, Athena Vouloumanos, Catherine Walter, Dan Weiss and Charles Yang.

Beyond the professional, there is the personal. My husband, Gary Yershon, is constant in his support. My son, Alex a grown man now features throughout the book with examples from a diary study I did with him during my doctoral studies. In the field of child language, it is not enough simply to breed ones own data. One needs also a son with a generous spirit who is happy to share his early ventures into language with the wider world. My father, Colin Saxton, drew the picture of Alex as a newborn which features as the frontispiece. And my mother, Josephine Howard, created the painting which has been used for the book cover. Finally, friends, family and colleagues make numerous appearances in these pages, embedded in the examples of linguistic structures.