The Intentionality Model and Language Acquisition: Engagement, Effort and the Essential Tension in DevelopmentISBN: 978-1-4051-0089-2
Paperback
116 pages
December 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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This book provides results of a longitudinal study which examined
language acquisition in the second year of life in the context of
developments in cognition, affect, and social connectedness.
Results of lag sequential analyses are reported to show how
different behaviors--words, sentences, emotional expressions,
conversational interactions, and construction thematic relations
between objects in play--converged, both in the stream of
children's actions in everyday events, in real time, an in
developmental time between the emergence of words at about 13
months and the transition to simple sentences at about 2 years of
age.
The conclusions show that performance counts for explaining language acquisition; language is not acquired independently but in relation to other behaviors; acquiring language is not easy and requires the work of behavioral coordination.