One Word at a Time: The Use of Single Word Utterances Before Syntax (Janua Linguarum) (Janua Linguarum. Series Minor)

## PREFACE At that time my daughter Allison was between her first and second birthdays, and her speech, as reported from my notes and recorded on video tape, was the subject of lively and intense debate. In large part, it was those weekly seminar sessions that stimulated the study reported here. I am grateful to Preface List of Tables 1. The Problem and the Data 2. Single-Word Utterances and Grammar 2.1. Explaining the Transition to Syntax 2.2. Conceptual Relations in Early Sentences 2.3. The Origin of Sentences and Linguistic Theory 3. Single-Word Utterances Are Not Sentences 3.1. /wídɘ̀/ : The Archetypal Pivot 3.2. Successive Single-Word Utterances 3.3. Comprehension and Syntax 3.4. Early Prosody and Syntax 4. Developmental Change in the Use of Single-Word Utterances 4.1. The Distinction Between Classes of Single Words 4.2. The Development of Substantive Words 4.3. The Use of Function Forms as Single-Word Utterances 4.4. The Use of Substantive Forms as Single-Word Utterances 5. Concepts, Words, and Sentences 5.1. Conceptual Notions Underlying Single-Word Utterances and the Origin of Grammar 5.2. ‘Rich’ Interpretation of Syntactic and Single-Word Child Utterances References Appendix 1. Methods and Materials for Video Tape Recording 2. Video Tape Transcriptions I: 16 months, 3 weeks II: 19 months, 2 weeks III: 20 months, 3 weeks IV: 22 months Subject Index Name Index

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