First Language : The Early Stages.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- An Unbuttoned Introduction -- Five Aspects of Sentence Construction -- Relations or Roles within the Simple Sentence -- Modulations of Meaning within the Simple Sentence -- Modalities of the Simple Sentence -- Embedding of One Sentence within Another -- Coordination of Simple Sentences and Propositional Relations -- Linguistic Apes -- Washoe's Accomplishments -- Sarah's Accomplishments -- The Study of Adam, Eve, and Sarah -- The Expository Plan of this Work -- Stage I. Semantic Roles and Grammatical Relations -- The Available Data -- Characterizations of the Data -- Telegraphic Speech -- Pivot and Open Classes -- Concepts and Relations -- Grammatical Relations, Predication, and Topic-Comment -- Case Grammar -- Conclusions -- The Role of Word Order -- The Period of Single-Word Utterances -- Word Order in Spontaneous Speech -- Discriminating Response to Contrastive Word Orders -- Word Order Judgments and Corrections -- Word Sequencing in Aphasics -- Conclusions -- The Major Meanings at Stage I -- Causes of the "Pivot Look" -- Prevalent Relations and Development in Stage I -- Definitions and Fragmentary Data -- Sensorimotor Intelligence and the Meanings of Stage I -- A Grammar for Late Stage I English -- Facts to be Represented -- Examples of Detail that will not be Represented -- A Schlesinger-type Grammar -- A Case Grammar -- A Bloom-type Grammar -- Summary of Grammar Types -- In General Summary -- Stage II. Grammatical Morphemes and the Modulation of Meanings -- The Order of Acquisition -- The Morphemes Scored -- Grammatical Morphemes Not Scored -- The Order of Acquisition -- Acquisition Order in Other Studies of Spontaneous Speech -- Acquisition Order in Controlled Studies -- Acquisition Order for Grammatical Morphemes in Languages Other Than English -- The Grammar of the Fourteen Morphemes -- The Progressive.

The Prepositions in and on -- Plural and Singular Number -- Past Tense -- The Possessive -- The Copula -- Articles -- The Semantics of the Fourteen Morphemes -- The Progressive -- The Prepositions in and on -- Plural and Singular Number -- Past Tense -- The Possessive -- The Copula -- The Third Person -- Articles -- The Frequency of the Fourteen Morphemes in Parental Speech -- Determinants of the Order of Acquisition -- Frequency -- Semantic Complexity -- Grammatical Complexity -- The Problem of Variability -- The Problem of Segmentation -- Summary -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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