Psychology

What language reveals about children's categories of personhood

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Two approaches to language and personhood are reviewed, and drawing on naturalistic longitudinal data on two‐year‐olds' acquisition of English, comparisons are made based on referential and form‐function analyses that make use of these approaches. Copyright © 1995 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company

Publication Title

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Publication Date

1995

Volume

1995

Issue

69

First Page

21

Last Page

32

ISSN

1520-3247

DOI

10.1002/cd.23219956904

Keywords

ego development, female, human, language development, male, preschool child, review, self concept, socialization, verbal behavior

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