Psychology

What language reveals about children's categories of personhood

Nancy Budwig, Worcester State University
Angela Wiley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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