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Publication details [#2771]

Dore, John. 1974. A pragmatic description of early language development. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 3 (4) : 343–350.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

early childhood | one-word stage | speech act, L1-acquisition of

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

The speech act is proposed as the unit of analysis for studying the pragmatics of early child language. A study of children's uses of single-word utterances is reported, and the data are analyzed in terms of 'primitive speech acts'.