Publications

Publication details [#47384]

Masataka, Nobuo. 2003. The Onset of Language. Cambridge University Press. 294 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

action theory | baby talk | communicative competence | early childhood | ethology

Annotation

Arguing that expressive and communicative actions, combined with other aspects of the infant's physiology, behavior and social settings, constitute a complex and cooperative system, this book, drawing on dynamic action theory and ethology, provides new insights into speech precursors.