Publications

Publication details [#1140]

Bates, Elizabeth, Luigia Camaioni and Virginia Volterra. 1975. The acquisition of performatives prior to speech. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavior and Development 21 : 205–226.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive development | performative, L1-acquisition of | pre-verbal age | social development

Annotation

A study of the onset of communication before speech begins. Special attention is paid to the cognitive and social developments that prepare the child for the discovery of communication.

Reprints

Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 1979. In Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Developmental pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 111–129.