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A first language : the early stages /

For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Roger, 1925-1997
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1973.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • An unbuttoned introduction ; Five aspects of sentence construction
  • Linguistic apes
  • The study of Adam, Eve, and Sarah
  • The expository plan of this work
  • Stage I. Semantic roles and grammatical relations ; The available data
  • Characterizations of the data
  • The role of word order
  • The major meanings at Stage I
  • Sensorimotor intelligence and the meanings of Stage I
  • A grammar for late Stage I English
  • In general summary
  • Stage II. Grammatical morphemes and the modulation of meanings ; The order of acquisition
  • The grammar of the fourteen morphemes
  • The semantics of the fourteen morphemes
  • The frequency of the fourteen morphemes in parental speech
  • Determinants of the order of acquisition
  • The problem of variability
  • The problem of segmentation
  • Conclusions.