1st Edition
The Communicative Competence of Young Children A Modular Approach
By Susan H. Foster
Copyright 1990
254 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.
Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Background Concepts. 2. Foundations of early communication. 3. Prelinguistic communicative competence and the early lexicon. 4. Communicating with language. 5. Explaining the development of communicative competence. 6. Studying child language. Further reading. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Authored by Foster-Cohen, Susan
