Title:
Language acquisition and communicative choice; essays by Susan M. Ervin-Tripp. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil.
Language science and national development
Main Entry:
Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. (Susan Moore), 1927-
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Publication Date:
1973.
Publication Place:
Stanford, Calif.,
ISBN:
0804708312
Subject:
Language acquisition.
Bilingualism.
Sociolinguistics.
Series:
Language science and national development
Contents:
Identification and bilingualism--Second language learning and bilingualism--Learning and recall in bilinguals--Semantic shift in bilingualism--Language and TAT content in bilinguals--An Issei learns English--On becoming a bilingual--Structure and process in language acquisition--The development of meaning in children's descriptive terms--Changes with age in the verbal determinants of word-association--The connotations of gender--Navaho word-associations--Imitation and structural change in children's language--Some strategies for the first two years--An analysis of the interaction of language, topic, and listener--Children's sociolinguistic competence and dialect diversity--The structure of communicative choice--Bibliography of Susan M. Ervin-Tripp's works (p. [377]-383)
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