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Snow, Catherine E. 1981. Social interaction and language acquisition. In Dale, Philip S. and David Ingram, eds. Child language - An international perspective. Selected papers from the First International Congress for the Study of Child Language. University Park Press. pp. 195–214.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence, L1-acquisition of | context of L1-acquisition | first language acquisition | innateness

Annotation

S. presents three specific hypotheses about the role of social interaction in contributing to the development of communicative and linguistic ability. S. argues that a greater understanding of acquisition is not promoted by general statements about the relative importance of innate and environmental factors.