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Publication details [#3680]

Geest, Anton J.M. Van der. 1977. Some interactional aspects of language acquisition. In Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 89–107.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | error in child language | first language acquisition

Annotation

G. deals with semantic and syntactic aspects of adult-child conversation, their relevance to language acquisition, and syntactic and pragmatic errors in the child's language resulting from the adult model sentences.