A functional approach to child language : a study of determiners and reference - Karmiloff-Smith, Annette; Williams, J. C. (James Case), 1938- (Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979)
Machine derived contents note: 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.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [242]-251.
Keywords: Children -- Language; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners; Reference (Linguistics)