When A Functional Approach to Child Language first appeared in
hardback in 1979, it was quickly recognized as a research report of
the first rank and a timely, critical exposition of Piaget's views
on language and thought. Whilst accepting the fundamental
importance of Piaget's epistemology, the author argues that
language acquisition will only be adequately explained if such an
epistemology is explicitly focused on children's constructive
interaction with their linguistic environment. In her own
experimental work on referential expressions, Dr Karmiloff-Smith is
concerned with the problem of ad-hoc experiment-generated behaviour
and the analysis of children's normal language procedures. The
results are carefully analysed and have significant theoretical
implications. The volume as a whole makes a substantial
contribution to child language studies and will be of interest to
students of linguistics and of developmental and experimental
psychology, and to those following advanced courses in language
acquisition and child development.
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