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Analyses of the semantics of communicative development in the first two years of life have shown that volitional and indicative forms dominate the early output (e.g. Greenfield and Smith, 1976). This paper reports a deaf child’s production of volitionals which were used to acquire objects just prior to the middle and end of the second year.
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Carter, A., 1978, From sensorimotor vocalizations to words: A case study of the evolution of attention - directing communication in the second year, in: “Action, Gesture and Symbol: the Emergence of Language”, A. Lock, ed., Academic Press, London.
Greenfield, P. M. and Smith, J. H., 1976, “The Structure of Communication in Early Language Development”, Academic Press, New York.
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Dalgleish, B., Wilkie, S., Pittam, J. (1983). The Semantics of Early Deaf Communication: Object Acquisitive Volitionals. In: Rogers, D., Sloboda, J.A. (eds) The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3724-9_24
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