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Metalinguistic development

Title
Metalinguistic development / Jean Emile Gombert.
Author
Gombert, Jean Emile.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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vi, 238 pages; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Développement métalinguistique. English
Alternative Title
Développement métalinguistique.
Subject
  • Language awareness in children
  • Metalanguage
  • Language acquisition
Note
  • Translation of: Le développement métalinguistique.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-226) and index.
Contents
1. General considerations -- Defining the term 'metalinguistics' -- Metacognition -- Metaprocesses, epiprocesses -- Metalanguage, metacommunication and metapragmatic abilities -- 2. Metaphonological development -- Early discrimination of linguistic sounds -- Metaphonological identification -- Metaphonological control -- The establishment of metaphonological abilities and learning to read -- 3. Metasyntactic development -- Metasyntactic judgements -- Metasyntactic control -- 4. Metalexical and metasemantic development -- The awareness and deliberate manipulation of the word -- Sentential metasemantic development -- The development of the processing of figurative language -- 5. Metapragmatic development -- The referential adequacy of the verbal message -- Adaptation of speech to the addressee -- Awareness of the social rules of language -- Linguistic humour -- 6. Metatextual development -- The monitoring of coherence -- The monitoring of cohesion -- The monitoring of textual structure -- 7. Metalinguistic development and written language -- The early conceptions of written language -- Metalinguistic development and reading -- Metalinguistic development and written production -- 8. The dynamics of metalinguistic development -- The different conceptions of metalinguistic development -- The Karmiloff-Smith model -- A 'model' of metalinguistic development in the child -- 9. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0226302083 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0226302091 (paper : acid-free paper)
LCCN
91041761
OCLC
  • 24792108
  • ocm24792108
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Columbia University Libraries