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Do Adults Show an Effect of Delayed First Language Acquisition When Calculating Scalar Implicatures?
Direct linkDavidson, Kathryn; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
Language acquisition involves learning not only grammatical rules and a lexicon but also what people are intending to convey with their utterances: the semantic/pragmatic component of language. In this article we separate the contributions of linguistic development and cognitive maturity to the acquisition of the semantic/pragmatic component of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Semantics, Pragmatics, Deafness
Kolers, Paul A.; Roediger, Henry L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Presents a "procedural view" of the learning mind, arguing against previous theories citing physical properties as its basis. A more process-oriented view of information processing is offered, which describes "mind" in terms of skill in manipulating symbols, and the notion of skills is shown to provide a useful framework for accounting for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Encoding (Psychology), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedDiller, Karl C. – Linguistics, 1971
Earlier version of this article was presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, December 28, 1968. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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
