The Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood [electronic resource] /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Miller, Max. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1979
Subjects:	Psychology., Pediatrics., Clinical psychology., Clinical Psychology.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67408-2
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