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Publication details [#3969]

Greenfield, Patricia Marks and Joshua H. Smith. 1976. The structure of communication in early language development. Academic Press. xi + 238 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | cognitive development | early childhood | first language acquisition

Annotation

G. and S. trace the child's emerging grammar from two points of origin: the child's world of action and perception and the communicative processes in adult interpretation and adult-child conversation.

Reviewed by

Dore, John. 1979. What's so conceptual about the acquisition of linguistic structures?

Keller-Cohen, Deborah. 1979. Review of $The structure of communication in early language development.