Language Development: Form and Function in Emerging Grammars

by Lois Bloom

The research reported is in investigation into the early acquisition of grammar by three children from the age of approximately 19 months. Nonlinguistic information from situational and behavioral context was used to infer the semantic intent of utterances in order to analyze the development of linguistic expression. Previous psycholinguistic studies of child language had described utterances in terms of the orderly distribution with which words occurred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262020564
• ISBN13: 9780262020565
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.