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Publication details [#8561]

Schmidt, Richard W. 1974. The functional development of language in a child of two-and-a-half years. Language and Speech 17 (4) : 358–368.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

functions of language, L1-acquisition of

Person as a subject

Halliday, M.A.K.

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Halliday's (1975: 'Learning how to mean') functional model of language acquisition is applied to the speech of a child of 30 months old. It is shown that at this stage the child's language of control is very rich.