Single Word Usage, Cognitive Development, Beginnings of - A Study of Ten English-Speaking Children

Klappentext An examination of the 'holophrastic period' which is thought to occur during the course of normal language acquisition in children. Zusammenfassung Previous investigators have believed that there is a 'holophrastic period' during the normal course of language acquisition! i.e. a period in which a child uses a single-word utterance to express something similar to the meaning which adults convey through the use of a relation! such as Fillmore's case relations! which involve more than one word. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Earlier work on the origins of language; 2. The present research as it relates to earlier work; 3. Design and procedures for the present study; 4. The patterns of psycholinguistic and sensory-motor abilities; 5. Toward a theory of single-word usage; Appendices A - D; References; Index.

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• Authors: Rodgon Maris Monitz, Maris Monitz Rodgon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521111140
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11114-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures