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| Introduction | |
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| Mechanisms for language acquisition | |
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| Chomsky's views on language acquisition | |
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| Competence and creativity | |
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| Primary linguistic data | |
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| Language in chimpanzees | |
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| Biological factors in language acquisition | |
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| Learning and learning theory | |
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| Language in the developing child | |
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| Egocentric speech | |
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| Piaget's views on language | |
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| Piaget as an epistemologist | |
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| Child's expressive language | |
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| Child's understanding of language | |
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| Universals and language variation | |
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| Development of the concept | |
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| Summary | |
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| The cognition hypothesis | |
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| Functional origins of language | |
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| Development of the child's sound system | |
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| Vocal productions and discriminations in infancy | |
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| Early perception and production of phonemic distinctions | |
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| Awareness of phonological structure | |
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| Naturalistic studies of language acquisition | |
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| Comprehension and production in child language | |
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| The development of word meaning | |
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| Holophrases | |
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| Writing grammars for child language | |
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| Semantic relations in two-word utterances | |
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| Over the threshold | |
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| The development of negation | |
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| The development of questions | |
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| Experimental studies of linguistic development | |
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| Active and passive sentences | |
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| 'John is easy to see' | |
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| Word order in other constructions | |
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| Relational terms | |
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| Dimensional adjectives | |
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| 'More' and 'less' | |
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| 'Same' and 'different' | |
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| Locative prepositions | |
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| Deixis and reference | |
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| The communicative context of language acquisition | |
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| Mothers' speech to children | |
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| Language and social class | |
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| Contextual variation in child speech | |
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| Learning more than one language | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |