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Edwards, Derek. 1978. Social relations in early language. In Lock, Andrew, ed. Action, gesture and symbol: The emergence of language. Academic Press. pp. 449–469.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context of L1-acquisition | first language acquisition

Annotation

The social-relational context is said to be the central nexus of interactions, meanings and messages which determines the semantic and pragmatic nature of children's early language.