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Into the Mother Tongue
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This book offers a systematic linguistic critique of language development studies since the 1960s. It uses systemic theory to explain and interpret the development of child language, with discussions and illustrative texts to explicate the analysis. Painter provides a rich source of data for child language researchers in all fields, and aims to make a systematic theory more accessible to those interested in the ideas put forward by M.A.K. Halliday in his writings on language development.
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Yes, you can access Into the Mother Tongue by Clare Painter in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Developmental research since the 1960s: non-systemic approaches
- 2 Systemic theory
- 3 Data
- 4 The Protolanguage
- 5 Into Phase: from protolanguage to transition
- 6 Eighteen to nineteen and a half months
- 7 Nineteen and a half months to twenty-one months
- 8 Twenty-one to twenty-two and a half months
- 9 Twenty-two and a half to twenty-four months
- 10 Concluding summary
- Appendix: Selected developments, 24-27 months
- Bibliography
- Index
