Publications

Publication details [#38979]

Nelson, Katherine, Amy Kyratzis and Susan Engel. 1985. The evolution of meaning in context. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (4) : 453–474.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | L1-acquisition | meaning | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses the development of one child's word meaning between the ages of 1;4 and 2;0 within the single event context of mother-child breakfast conversation.