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A first language : the early stages / Roger Brown.

For many years, Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studyi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Brown, Roger, 1925-1997
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1973.
Subjects:
Language acquisition.
Psycholinguistics.
Children > Language.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • An Unbuttoned Introduction
  • Five Aspects of Sentence Construction
  • Relations or Roles within the Simple Sentence
  • Modulations of Meaning within the Simple Sentence
  • Modalities of the Simple Sentence
  • Embedding of One Sentence within Another
  • Coordination of Simple Sentences and Propositional Relations
  • Linguistic Apes
  • Washoeâ€?s Accomplishments
  • Sarahâ€?s Accomplishments
  • The Study of Adam, Eve, and Sarah
  • The Expository Plan of this Work
  • Stage I. Semantic Roles and Grammatical Relations
  • The Available Data.
  • Characterizations of the DataTelegraphic Speech
  • Pivot and Open Classes
  • Concepts and Relations
  • Grammatical Relations, Predication, and Topic-Comment
  • Case Grammar
  • Conclusions
  • The Role of Word Order
  • The Period of Single-Word Utterances
  • Word Order in Spontaneous Speech
  • Discriminating Response to Contrastive Word Orders
  • Word Order Judgments and Corrections
  • Word Sequencing in Aphasics
  • Conclusions
  • The Major Meanings at Stage I
  • Causes of the “Pivot Lookâ€?
  • Prevalent Relations and Development in Stage I.
  • Definitions and Fragmentary DataSensorimotor Intelligence and the Meanings of Stage I
  • A Grammar for Late Stage I English
  • Facts to be Represented
  • Examples of Detail that will not be Represented
  • A Schlesinger-type Grammar
  • A Case Grammar
  • A Bloom-type Grammar
  • Summary of Grammar Types
  • In General Summary
  • Stage II. Grammatical Morphemes and the Modulation of Meanings
  • The Order of Acquisition
  • The Morphemes Scored
  • Grammatical Morphemes Not Scored
  • The Order of Acquisition.
  • Acquisition Order in Other Studies of Spontaneous SpeechAcquisition Order in Controlled Studies
  • Acquisition Order for Grammatical Morphemes in Languages Other Than English
  • The Grammar of the Fourteen Morphemes
  • The Progressive
  • The Prepositions in and on
  • Plural and Singular Number
  • Past Tense
  • The Possessive
  • The Copula
  • Articles
  • The Semantics of the Fourteen Morphemes
  • The Progressive
  • The Prepositions in and on
  • Plural and Singular Number
  • Past Tense
  • The Possessive
  • The Copula
  • The Third Person.
  • ArticlesThe Frequency of the Fourteen Morphemes in Parental Speech
  • Determinants of the Order of Acquisition
  • Frequency
  • Semantic Complexity
  • Grammatical Complexity
  • The Problem of Variability
  • The Problem of Segmentation
  • Summary
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Index.

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