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The Ontogenesis of Speech Acts.
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In this paper, a speech act approach to the transition from pre-linguistic to linguistic communication is adopted in order to consider language in relation to behaviour generally and to allow for an emphasis on the USE of language rather than on its form.Abstract:
A speech act approach to the transition from pre-linguistic to linguistic communication is adopted in order to consider language in relation to behaviour generally and to allow for an emphasis on the USE of language rather than on its form. The structure of language is seen as non-arbitrary in that it reflects both attention structures (via predication) and action structures (via the fundamental case grammatical form of language). Linguistic concepts are first realized in action. A pilot study focusing on the regulation of JOINT attention and JOINT activity within the context of mutuality between mother and infant is discussed, with emphasis on ritualization in mutual play as a vehicle for understanding the development of the formal structures of language.read more
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Social Cognition, joint attention and communicative Competence from 9 to 15 months of age
TL;DR: It was found that two measures--the amount of time infants spent in joint engagement with their mothers and the degree to which mothers used language that followed into their infant's focus of attention--predicted infants' earliest skills of gestural and linguistic communication.
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Coordinating attention to people and objects in mother-infant and peer-infant interaction.
Roger Bakeman,Lauren B. Adamson +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that mothers may indeed support or "scaffold" their infants' early attempts to embed objects in social interaction, but that as attentional capabilities develop even quite unskilled peers may be appropriate partners for the exercise of these capacities.
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Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age
TL;DR: A habituation study indicating that 12-month-old infants can take the "intentional stance" in interpreting the goal-directed spatial behavior of a rational agent and indicates that infants of this age are able to evaluate the rationality of the agent's goal- directed actions, which is a necessary requirement for applying the intentional stance.
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The Acquisition of Performatives Prior to Speech.
TL;DR: The authors examined the onset of intentional communication before speech, and traced it to the very first uses of speech, focusing on the cognitive and social developments that prepare the child for the discovery of communication.
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The achievement and antecedents of labelling
Anat Ninio,Jerome S. Bruner +1 more
TL;DR: In a longitudinal study of one mother-infant dyad, using video-recordings of their free play in a period between 0, 8 and 1; 6, it was found that the child's lexical labels were more adult-like substitutes for earlier communicative forms that he had utilized in the dialogue as discussed by the authors.
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How to do things with words
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Ann S. Ferebee,Noam Chomsky +1 more
TL;DR: Methodological preliminaries of generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence; theory of performance; organization of a generative grammar; justification of grammar; descriptive and explanatory theories; evaluation procedures; linguistic theory and language learning.
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
TL;DR: Generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence as discussed by the authors have been used as a theory of performance for language learning. But they have not yet been applied to the problem of language modeling.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this article. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Alice Koller,John R. Searle +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this paper. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.