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Bruner, Jerome S. 1978. On prelinguistic prerequisites of speech. In Campbell, Robin N. and Philip T. Smith, eds. Recent advances in the psychology of language. Plenum Press. pp. 199–214.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

acquisition of non-verbal behavior | onset of verbal behavior

Annotation

B. argues that some primitive, prelinguistic communicative procedures must reach a requisite level of development before any language acquisition device can begin to operate.