The Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1 Introduction.
• 2 Description of the Project: Cognitive and Social Determinants of Language Acquisition.
• 2.1 General and Long-Term Goals of the Language Acquisition Project.
• 2.2 The Children under Observation: Meike, Kerstin, and Simone.
• 2.3 The Method of Gathering Data.
• 3 A Quantitative Analysis of the Early Linguistic Development of Meike and Simone.
• 3.1 A Survey of the Individual Corpora of Utterances of Meike and Simone.
• 3.2 Quantitative Features of Corpora I to III for Meike and Simone.
• 4 Problems in the Transformational Analysis of Early Child Language.
• 4.1 The Pivot-Grammar Approach.
• 4.2 Empirical Arguments for a Transformational Descriptive Model.
• 4.3 The Method of Rich Interpretation.
• 4.4 Reduction Transformations.
• 5 Aspects of the Early Linguistic Development of Meike and Simone.
• 5.1 A Sketch of a Model for the Description of a Child’s Communicative Intentions.
• 5.2 Illocutionary Acts and Terminal Intonation Contours.
• 5.3 Propositional Acts and Word Order.
• 5.4 Context-Referential Acts and Ellipsis.
• 6 Conclusion.
• 6.1 Summary.
• 6.2 Final Comments on the Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood.
• 7 Appendix.
• 7.1 Glossary of the Notations Used in the Transcripts.
• 7.2 Context of Items Used in the Intonation Test.
• 7.3 Context of Items Used in the Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis.
• References.
• Author Index.