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Publication details [#1134]

Bates, Elizabeth. 1978. Functionalism and the biology of language. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 15 : K1–K26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

biology of language | first language acquisition | functionalism | linguistic knowledge

Annotation

A defence of the functionalist approach to linguistic knowledge and language acquisition, and an attempt to show how this functionalist approach leads to a plausible model of the biology of language.