From Performative Act to Performative Utterance: An Ethological Perspective.

Bullowa, Margaret

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Publication Date: 1977

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From Performative Act to Performative Utterance: An Ethological Perspective

Bullowa, Margaret

Sign Language Studies, 16, 193-218, Aut 77

For the two children studied and in the situations observed and recorded, important conditions for the emergence of language in the ontogeny of communication appear to be: (1) interaction with caretaking adults, (2) shared focal attention, and (3) specificity of reference. (Author)

Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Skills, Linguistic Performance, Psycholinguistics, Verbal Development

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