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Baron, Naomi S. 1980. Motivation, function and the acquisition of reference. In Kettemann, Bernhard and Robert N. St.Clair, eds. New approaches to language acquisition. G. Narr. pp. 149–156.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

functionality | motivation | reference, L1-acquisition of | variability in L1-acquisition

Annotation

B. suggests that the problem of motivation is a genuine area of concern for linguistics, indicates what kind of functional variation empirically exists in children's language, and suggests that consideration of motivation and of functional variation isnecessary to explain how and why children learn to name things.