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REVIEWS131 The discovery of spoken language. By Peter Jusczyk. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 314. $32.50. Reviewed by David Ingram, University of British Columbia The purpose of this book appears in the first chapter which states it is an 'attempt to situate the findings of infant speech-perception research [henceforth ISP research] more squarely within the field of language acquisition' (3). The goal of the book deserves some immediate assessment. A review of ISP research is in itself a sufficient purpose. It is a field which has grown rapidly and now has a sufficiently large literature to merit a book length treatment. Such a review provides a discussion of the major studies and the main theoretical proposals that have been made. One would expect, however, that such a review would also achieve Jusczyk's central theme, i.e. to place the field within the study of language acquisition. Why then, does J single out this point? His discussion in Ch. 1 suggests that ISP research
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REVIEWS131 The discovery of spoken language. By Peter Jusczyk. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 314. $32.50. Reviewed by David Ingram, University of British Columbia The purpose of this book appears in the first chapter which states it is an 'attempt to situate the findings of infant speech-perception research [henceforth ISP research] more squarely within the field of language acquisition' (3). The goal of the book deserves some immediate assessment. A review of ISP research is in itself a sufficient purpose. It is a field which has grown rapidly and now has a sufficiently large literature to merit a book length treatment. Such a review provides a discussion of the major studies and the main theoretical proposals that have been made. One would expect, however, that such a review would also achieve Jusczyk's central theme, i.e. to place the field within the study of language acquisition. Why then, does J single out this point? His discussion in Ch. 1 suggests that ISP research
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