The Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1979, 1979
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1979 |
| Series: | Springer Series in Language and Communication
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Description of the Project: Cognitive and Social Determinants of Language Acquisition
- 2.1 General and Long-Term Goals of the Language Acquisition Project
- 2.2 The Children under Observation: Meike, Kerstin, and Simone
- 2.3 The Method of Gathering Data
- 3 A Quantitative Analysis of the Early Linguistic Development of Meike and Simone
- 3.1 A Survey of the Individual Corpora of Utterances of Meike and Simone
- 3.2 Quantitative Features of Corpora I to III for Meike and Simone
- 4 Problems in the Transformational Analysis of Early Child Language
- 4.1 The Pivot-Grammar Approach
- 4.2 Empirical Arguments for a Transformational Descriptive Model
- 4.3 The Method of Rich Interpretation
- 4.4 Reduction Transformations
- 5 Aspects of the Early Linguistic Development of Meike and Simone
- 5.1 A Sketch of a Model for the Description of a Child’s Communicative Intentions
- 5.2 Illocutionary Acts and Terminal Intonation Contours
- 5.3 Propositional Acts and Word Order
- 5.4 Context-Referential Acts and Ellipsis
- 6 Conclusion
- 6.1 Summary
- 6.2 Final Comments on the Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood
- 7 Appendix
- 7.1 Glossary of the Notations Used in the Transcripts
- 7.2 Context of Items Used in the Intonation Test
- 7.3 Context of Items Used in the Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
- References
- Author Index