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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Cover; THE TRANSITION FROM PRELINGUISTIC TO LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 In the Beginning Was the Word: A History of the Study ofLanguage Acquisition; The First and Second Days of Creation: The Revelation ofGenerative Transformational Grammar; The Third Day: Language Acquisition as the Acquisition ofSyntax; The Fourth Day: The Reincorporation of Semantics into ChildLanguage; The Fifth Day: The Social-Functional Approach to LanguageAcquisition; The Sixth Day: The Revival of Formal Approaches andNativism |
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The Seventh Day: The Day of Rest and JudgmentOur Fall from Eden and Our Search for Redemption; 2. The Acquisition or Pragmatic Commitments; Real-World Knowledge -- Speech Acts and Fine Tuning; The Pragmatics of Acquisition; Pragmatics and Syntax Revisited; Reciprocal Commitment and Formats; Social Interaction or Syntax?; 3. On Transition, Continuity, and Coupling: An AlternativeApproach to Communicative Development; Why Focus on the Transition Stage?; Is Continuity A Useful Construct?; Alternative Approaches to Communicative Development; Conclusion |
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4. The Preverbal Negotiation of Failed Messages: Insights into theTransition PeriodTwo Examples of the Negotiation of Failed Messages; What Any Grandmother (In Western Society) Will Tell You:Babies Know What They Want; The Components of the Negotiation of Failed Messages; Failed Uptake of the Infant's Initial Signal: MissedAttempts; The Functions of Negotiation Episodes; Final Comments; 5. DISCUSSION or Continuity and Discontinuity. and the Magic of Language Development; Nature and Nurture; Continuity and Discontinuity; Form, Content, and Use in the Transition to Language |
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The Transition to Language6. Setting the Stage for Language Acquisition: CommunicationDevelopment in the First Year; A Definition of Communication; The Process of Prelinguistic Communication; General Relationships Between Communication Development and Mothers' Interpretations of and Reactions to Infants' Behaviors; Results; Conclusion; 7. A Cultural Perspective on the Transition from Prelinguistic toLinguistic Communication; Ethnographic Orientation; Two Developmental Stories; Anglo-American White Middle Class DevelopmentalStory; A Kaluli Developmental Story |
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A Discussion of the Developmental StoriesConclusions; 8. DISCUSSION Empirical Versus Logical Issues in the Transition fromPrelinguistic to Linguistic Communication; From Prelinguistic to Linguistic Communication: Continuity or Discontinuity?; Language: Innately Programmed or DevelopmentallyConditioned?; The Relation of Preverbal Communication to Language: Antecedent, Precursor, or Prerequisite?; The Impact of Environmental Practices on Language: Fact or Cultural Fiction?; Conclusion; 9. The Redundancy Between Adult Speech and NonverbalInteraction: A Contribution to Acquisition? |
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Nonverbal Information About the Referent of Speech to YoungChildren |
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Published in the year 1983, The Transition From Prelinguistic To Linguistic Communication is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology |
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Language acquisition -- Congresses
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Nonverbal communication in children -- Congresses
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Language acquisition
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Nonverbal communication in children
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134921621 |
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1134921624 |
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