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Ferguson, Charles A. – 1988
This paper discusses four kinds of reasons for studying child language. The first of the four, biological reasons, includes the desire to understand our own species and its place among other living things in the universe. The common human faculty for communication, the variability in language building, and the similarity of human communication to…
Descriptors: Biology, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences
