How children learn to learn language
McCune, LorraineAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
What are the processes by which children acquire language? This volume explores that question and demonstrates that pre-language development involves a dynamic system of social, cognitive, and vocal variables that come together to enable the transition to referential language.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
What are the processes by which children acquire language? This volume explores that question and demonstrates that pre-language development involves a dynamic system of social, cognitive, and vocal variables that come together to enable the transition to referential language.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A perspective -- Primary relationships and the symbol situation -- The first phase -- Cognitive background for language -- Motion events, dynamic event words, and the transition to verbs -- Representational play and language -- The vocal story -- Pre-linguistic communication : grunts as a gateway to language -- Dynamic systems in language development and language production.
Language acquisition
Languages & Literatures
Philology & Linguistics