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Specific Cognitive Antecedents of Structures and Functions Involved in Language Acquisition

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Moerk, Ernst L. – Child Study Journal, 1973

The antecedents of verbal behavior, together with the teaching skills of the adult linguistic community, probably constitute all the necessary bases for language acquisition. As they seemed to be sufficient for the explanation of all the known phenomena, an assumption of an innate linguistic language acquisition device was rejected as superfluous.…

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition

The Meaning Makers: Children Learning Language and Using Language to Learn. First Edition.

Wells, Gordon – 1986

Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…

Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment