📚 Language Acquisition

Books with language acquisition on their catalogue record, first published between 1926 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject language acquisition in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,068 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Langage et la pensée chez l'enfant	Jean Piaget	1926	28
	Second language acquisition	Susan M. Gass	1994	27
	Child language	Jean Stilwell Peccei	1990	16
	Handbook of Orthography and Literacy	R. Malatesha Joshi	2005	14
	Language Development	Robert E. Owens	1984	13
	Introduction to Language and Society	Martin Montgomery	1990	11
	The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language	Edith L. Bavin	2009	9
	Cognitive Neuroscience of Language	David Kemmerer	2014	9
	Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition	Dan Isaac Slobin	2014	9
	Speech development of a bilingual child	Werner F. Leopold	1939	8
	Language Development for Maths	Marion Nash	2004	8
	Language Development	Owens, Robert E., Jr.	2004	8
	The natural approach	Stephen D. Krashen	1983	7
	Signal to syntax	James L. Morgan	1995	7
	Routes to Language	Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole	2008	7
	Onset of Language	Nobuo Masataka	2003	6
	Language Development over the Lifespan	Robert W. Schrauf	2009	6
	Myshlenie i rechʹ	L. S. Vygotskiĭ	1962	5
	Principles and practice in second language acquisition	Stephen D. Krashen	1982	5
	Thought and Language	Lev S. Vygotsky	1986	5
	Fluent in 3 months	Benny (Brendan Richard) Lewis	2014	5
	Why Only Us	Robert C. Berwick	2016	5
	Sprachentwicklung beim Kind	Gisela Szagun	1980	4
	Language learnability and language development	Steven Pinker	1984	4
	Language learning strategies	Rebecca L. Oxford	1989	4
	Language development	Erika Hoff	1997	4
	How languages are learned	Patsy Lightbown	1999	4
	Introduction to language development	Sandra Levey	2013	4
	Becoming Fluent	Richard Roberts	2015	4
	Crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition	Eric Kellerman	1986	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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