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Publication details [#23471]
Gopnik, Alison and Andrew N. Meltzoff. 1985. From people, to plans, to objects: Changes in the meaning of early words and their relation to cognitive development. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (4) : 495–512. 
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English
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The early development of the use of the words `no', `more', and `there' is said to follow a three-step sequence. First, children use these words for interactional functions, second to encode plans, and last to indicate relationships between objects.