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The Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood [electronic resource] / by M. Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Springer Series in Language and Communication ; 3Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1979Edition: 1st ed. 1979Description: XVI, 478 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783642674082
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616.89 23
LOC classification:
  • RC466.8-467.97
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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