Subject: avail for review : language acquisition

the books listed below are in the linguist office and now available for review . if you are interested in reviewing a book ( or leading a discussion of the book ) ; please contact our book review editor , andrew carnie , ph . d . , at : carnie @ linguistlist . org please include in your request message a brief statement about your research interests , background , affiliation and other information that might be valuable to help us select a suitable reviewer . do not include an electronic cv or a url linking to a personal homepage . these will be ignored . please also send a surface mail address for us to send the book to . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * language acquisition : gopnik , alison and meltzoff andrew ( 1997 ) words , thoughts and theories . mit press , cambridge . this book articulates and defends the " theory theory " of cognitive and semantic development , the idea that infants and young children , like scientists , learn about the world by forming and revising theories - - a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad implications for cognitive science .
