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Publication details [#38981]

Gopnik, Alison and Andrew N. Meltzoff. 1985. From people, to plans, to objects : Changes in the meaning of early words and their relation to cognitive development. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (4) : 495–512.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive development | L1-acquisition | language use | meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses changes in the uses of children's early relational words, such as ‘no’, ‘more’, and ‘there’, following a three-step sequence and their relation to cognitive development.