A First Language: The Early Stages
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A First Language: The Early Stages is a landmark psycholinguistic study that meticulously documents how a young child acquires and develops their first language over time.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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psycholinguistic study ⓘ |
| aimsTo | document how a young child acquires a first language over time ⓘ |
| analyzes |
order of acquisition of grammatical morphemes
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relationship between age and linguistic complexity ⓘ spontaneous speech data ⓘ |
| author | Roger Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contribution |
establishes developmental norms for early English grammar
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influences later research on child language ⓘ offers empirical basis for theories of language acquisition ⓘ provides detailed transcripts of child speech ⓘ |
| describes |
development of mean length of utterance
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development of sentence structure ⓘ early word combinations ⓘ emergence of grammatical morphemes ⓘ stages in the acquisition of English morphology ⓘ telegraphic speech ⓘ |
| field |
language acquisition
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psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
early stages of grammatical development
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longitudinal study of a single child ⓘ morphological development ⓘ pragmatic development ⓘ semantic development ⓘ syntactic development ⓘ |
| genre | academic monograph ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| methodology |
longitudinal data collection
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naturalistic observation ⓘ |
| perspective |
descriptive
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empirical ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic study of child language
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landmark work in psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| subject |
child language development
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first language acquisition ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
researchers in language acquisition
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students of developmental psychology ⓘ students of linguistics ⓘ |
| usedIn |
linguistics education
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psychology education ⓘ speech-language pathology education ⓘ |
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