Children's Language: Volume 7

This volume presents current research findings on vital issues in language development compiled by an international group of leading researchers. The data are drawn from studies of the acquisition of Swedish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Themes emphasized in all the chapters include the importance of the social context of acquisition, the existence of interconnections among various domains of language development, and the impossibility of understanding acquisition using a simple theory or a single methodological approach.

List of Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
References	p. xiii
Children's Language: How It Develops and How It is Used	p. 1
References	p. 6
Processes in the Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 22
References	p. 22
""""I Am Not Guessing!"""": Children's Achievement of Early Literacy	p. 25
Acknowledgments	p. 65
References	p. 66
Cognitive and Interpersonal Functions of Children's Questions	p. 69
Coding of Single Question Functions	p. 96
References	p. 99
Some Issues of Lexical Development in Early Bi- and Trilinguals	p. 103
References	p. 119
A Functional Approach to the Acquisition of Personal Pronouns	p. 121
References	p. 144
Acknowledgments	p. 144
Intonation and Dialogue Processes in Early Speech	p. 147
Acknowledgments	p. 168
References	p. 168
Preschoolers' Quil: Quick Incidental Learning of Words	p. 171
Acknowledgments	p. 192
References	p. 192
Mothers' Speech in Different Social Groups in Hungary	p. 197
References	p. 220
Metapragmatics: Children's Conception of Promising	p. 223
References	p. 243
The Beginning of the Explaining Capacity	p. 245
References	p. 271
The Pragmatics of Collaboration: Participant Structure and the Structures of Participation	p. 273
Acknowledgments	p. 301
References	p. 301
Text or Context? the Influence of Early Literate Experience Upon Preschool Children's Speech Act Comprehension	p. 305
Acknowledgments	p. 324
References	p. 325
Author Index	p. 327
Subject Index	p. 333
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