TY - BOOK ID - 1900824 TI - A functional approach to child language : a study of determiners and reference PY - 1979 VL - 24 SN - 0521224160 9780521224161 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University press DB - UniCat KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Grammar KW - Children KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Reference (Linguistics) KW - Enfants KW - Grammaire comparée et générale KW - Référence (Linguistique) KW - Language KW - Determiners KW - Langage KW - Déterminants KW - 159.9:800 KW - -Grammar, Comparative and general KW - -Reference (Linguistics) KW - Signification (Linguistics) KW - Linguistics KW - Onomasiology KW - Semantics KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Psycholinguistiek KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Language. KW - Determiners. KW - 159.9:800 Psycholinguistiek KW - Reference (Linguistics). KW - Grammaire comparée et générale KW - Référence (Linguistique) KW - Déterminants KW - Determinatives (Linguistics) KW - Determiners (Linguistics) KW - Classifiers (Linguistics) KW - Definiteness (Linguistics) KW - Language development in children KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Vocabulary KW - Children - Language KW - Grammar, Comparative and general - Determiners UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1900824 AB - When A Functional Approach to Child Language first appeared in hardback in 1979, it was quickly recognized as a research report of the first rank and a timely, critical exposition of Piaget's views on language and thought. Whilst accepting the fundamental importance of Piaget's epistemology, the author argues that language acquisition will only be adequately explained if such an epistemology is explicitly focused on children's constructive interaction with their linguistic environment. In her own experimental work on referential expressions, Dr Karmiloff-Smith is concerned with the problem of ad-hoc experiment-generated behaviour and the analysis of children's normal language procedures. The results are carefully analysed and have significant theoretical implications. The volume as a whole makes a substantial contribution to child language studies and will be of interest to students of linguistics and of developmental and experimental psychology, and to those following advanced courses in language acquisition and child development. ER -