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Shields, Maureen M. 1984. Discourse universals and the development of linguistic structures from the first to the fifth year, Part 1: First words. Proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language 2 (2) : 379–400.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse, L1-acquisition of | language universal | lexical meaning, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

Why should the child pick up the structural features of discourse rather than particular contents of meaning when it acquires its first words?