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Publication details [#8799]
Shatz, Marilyn. 1982. On mechanisms of language acquisition: Can features of the communicative environment account for development? In Wanner, Eric and Lila R. Gleitman, eds. Language acquisition: The state of the art. Cambridge University Press. pp. 102–127.
Annotation
S. tries to demonstrate that currently formulated communication-based approaches imply too impoverished a view of the child's contribution to language acquisition.