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A functional approach to child language :

Karmiloff-Smith, Annette.

A functional approach to child language : a study of determiners and reference / Annette Karmiloff-Smith. - Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979. - vi, 258 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 24 .

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [242]-251.

1. The place of language in child development; 2. Determiners and reference; 3. Introduction to the data; 4. Production experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 5. Production experiments: anaphoric function; 6. Production experiments: gender-indicating function of determiners; 7. Comprehension experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 8. Comprehension experiments: anaphoric function of determiners; 9. Synthesis of the child's acquisition of the plurifunctionality of determiners; 10. General implications for language acquisition and child development; Bibliography; Index.

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Children--Language.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Determiners.
Reference (Linguistics)

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