The communicative competence of young children : a modular approach
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The communicative competence of young children : a modular approach
(Studies in language and linguistics / general editors, Geoffrey Leech & Mick Short)
Longman, 1990
- : hard
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. 203-234
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.
Table of Contents
Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Background Concepts. 2. Foundations of early communication. 3. Prelinguistic communicative competence and the early lexicon. 4. Communicating with language. 5. Explaining the development of communicative competence. 6. Studying child language. Further reading. Bibliography. Index.
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