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Publication details [#3837]

Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick and Laura Gordon. 1983. In the beginning was the word: A history of the study of language acquisition. In Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, ed. The transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication. L. Erlbaum. pp. 1–25.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive development | L1-acquisition theory | onset of verbal behavior | universals in child language

Annotation

Overview of various stages in the development of language acquisition studies. Some current problems are said to be: the conflation of communication and language; the failures of cognitive accounts; the overabundance of universals; understanding the transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication.