1st Edition

The Communicative Competence of Young Children A Modular Approach

By Susan H. Foster Copyright 1990
    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.



    Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Background Concepts. 2. Foundations of early communication. 3. Prelinguistic communicative competence and the early lexicon. 4. Communicating with language. 5. Explaining the development of communicative competence. 6. Studying child language. Further reading. Bibliography. Index.

    Biography

    Authored by Foster-Cohen, Susan