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Halliday, M. A. K. – 1975
This book describes how the child acquires a linguistic system before he is capable of verbal utterances or has developed the ability to structure language in a meaningful way. The first chapter of the book contains a discussion of previous language development studies on learning the mother tongue and proposes a hypothesis of language development…
Descriptors: Child Language, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Acquisition