Language Acquisition: A Functionalistic Perspective

action active adult anaphoric anaphoric reference animacy aspects assessment base basic Bates Bloom Bowerman Brown Bruner capacities Cazden Child Development Child Language Chomsky clinical clinician co-occurrence cognitive communicative complex construct validity context decoder developmental developmental profiles doggy early word encoder evidence expressions facilitating formal grammatical functionalist Gleitman and Wanner grammatical categories grammatical relations Greenfield and Smith infants inflectional intention interaction intonation issues Journal of Child Journal of Speech knowledge label Lahey language acquisition language impairments language intervention language learning learner Leonard linguistic literature loci of learning means metalinguistic morphemes mother motherese Muma notion noun phrase object object permanence Palermo peer perspective phonological pragmatic predication presupposition problem pronominal pronouns prosodic Prutting psycholinguistic psychological psychometric questions realized reference referential relationships repertoire role Schlesinger semantic categories sentence sequence skills social commerce speech acts stage structure syntactic syntax theory topic verbal behavior verbs