A First Language
The Early Stages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5829243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Gardner (0000-0002-2794-5851), R Allen Gardner, Beatrice T Gardner |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 729-729 |
| Publication date | 1974-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | A First Language: The Early Stages, Roger Brown, 1973 |
| Venue | The American Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9556 • E-ISSN: 1939-8298 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1421982 |
| OpenAlex | W2086426947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development. These core findings are related to recent work in psychology and linguistics--and especially to studies of the acquisition of languages other than English, including Finnish, German, Korean, and Samoan. Roger Brown has written the most exhaustive and searching analysis yet undertaken of the early stages of grammatical constructions and the meanings they convey. The five stages of linguistic development Brown establishes are measured not by chronological age-since children vary greatly in the speed at which their speech develops--but by mean length of utterance. This volume treats the first two stages. Stage I is the threshold of syntax, when children begin to combine words to make sentences. These sentences, Brown shows, are always limited to the same small set of semantic relations: nomination, recurrence, disappearance, attribution, possession, agency, and a few others. Stage II is concerned with the modulations of basic structural meanings--modulations for number, time, aspect, specificity--through the gradual acquisition of grammatical morphemes such as inflections, prepositions, articles, and case markers. Fourteen morphemes are studied in depth and it is shown that the order of their acquisition is almost identical across children and is predicted by their relative semantic and grammaticalcomplexity. It is, ultimately, the intent of this work to focus on the nature and development of knowledge: knowledge concerning grammar and the meanings coded by grammar; knowledge inferred from performance, from sentences and the settings in which they are spoken, and from signs of comprehension or incomprehension of sentences
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Sla
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Acquisition of the Closing Diphthongs /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ in English L2 and Jamaican Creole
The Acquisition of English Articles by Second Language Learners
Abstract Rule Learning for Visual Sequences in 8‐ and 11‐Month‐Olds
Receptive Grammatical Knowledge of Familiar Content Words and Inflection in 16‐Month‐Olds
Desafios metodológicos à Linguística de Corpus em aquisição da linguagem no português brasileiro
Investigando as habilidades de processamento linguístico infantil
The building blocks of meaning
Acquisition of Russian gender agreement by monolingual and bilingual children
Model learning in syntactic development
Codeswitching in triadic conversational situations in early bilingualism
By Way of Introduction
Pronoun acquisition in a Mandarin— English bilingual child
The role of extra-linguistic factors in receptive bilingualism
Acquisition of English number agreement
Delayed acquisition of irregular inflectional morphology in Hebrew in early sequential bilingualism
Using whole-word production measures to determine the influence of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on bilingual speech production
Effects of input on the early grammatical development of bilingual children
Language mixing and learning strategy
Developmental pathways for first language acquisition of Mandarin nominal expressions
The transition from nominal to pronominal person reference in the early language of a Mandarin-English bilingual child
The early acquisition of Spanish verbal morphology
Competing past tense forms in English attrition
Language attrition and theories of forgetting
Bilingual and monolingual children's acquisition of Spanish dative alternation structures
Assessment of Bilingual Children for Identification of Language Impairment
Copula omission in the English developing grammar of English/Spanish bilingual children
When an Indian speaks to a Chinese
Using MLU to study early language development in English
The Airs Test Battery of Singing Skills
Written languaging with indirect feedback in writing revision
The impact of fluency strategy training on Iranian EFL learners’ speech under online planning conditions
A tribute to M. A. K. Halliday (1925–2018)
Peer Interaction, Language Proficiency, and Language Preference in Bilingual Preschool Classrooms
A test for mother-tongue interference in second language learning
Recent developments in speech to children
The universality of role systems
Cross-linguistic influences on the placement of negation and modal particles in simultaneous bilingualism
Establishing a schema
Paraphrasing
The use of headed and headless DE-marked referential expressions in Chinese mother-child conversation
First-order reality and reflexive practices in children's language development
Deep dyslexia and developmental dyslexia
Hierarchical clause structure as a tool for cognitive advances in early childhood
Innate language
Unravelling the complexity of Direct Object Scrambling
The development of new and old information in young children's early language
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A Grammer without Functional Categories
Moving in small steps towards verb second
Sandwich EPP hypothesis
Computational Tools for Analysing Talk
Cluster reduction and compensatory lengthening in the acquisition of possessive -s
The role of animacy in children's understanding of ‘move’
Mixing and pragmatic parental strategies in early bilingual acquisition
Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model
The case for semantic relations
Form and function in early clause-combining
The development of sentence planning
Up front
Estimating the latent number of types in growing corpora with reduced cost–accuracy trade-off
The child language data exchange system
Asymmetries in the acquisition of word-initial and word-final consonant clusters
Learning a generative syntax from transparent syntactic atoms in the linguistic input
Counting nouns and verbs in the input
Learning how to use verbs
Sources of variability in language development of children with cochlear implants
Adjective ordering in the language of young children
Developmental and stylistic variation in the composition of early vocabulary
The acquisition of some Dutch morphological rules
Language mixing in young bilinguals
A parametric approach to the acquisition of syntax
Phonological changes during the transition from one-word to productive word combination
Children's production of commissive speech acts
Prosodic realizations of new , given , and corrective referents in the spontaneous speech of toddlers
Cognitive bases of lexical development
Acquiring a first language in adolescence
Infinitives or bare stems? Are English-speaking children defaulting to the highest-frequency form
Alternative explanations for the relationship between maternal verbal interaction style and child language development
How to measure development in corpora? An association strength approach
The prosodic (re)organization of children's early English articles
A multi-functional approach to single-word usage
Learning to construct sentences in Spanish
Introducing information in dialogues
Learning to in complement constructions
Adult reformulations of child errors as negative evidence
Filler syllables
Understanding the developmental dynamics of subject omission
An investigation into maternal use of telegraphic input to children with Down syndrome
Lexical segmentation and vocabulary growth in early language acquisition
The influence of discourse context on children's provision of auxiliary BE
The relationship between age and MLU in young children
The (non)realization of unstressed elements in children's utterances
Origins of verbal logic
Root infinitives in Dutch early child language
Phonotactic probabilities in young children's speech production
Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development
Some aspects of child phonology in imitative and spontaneous speech
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |