This bibliography on the acquisition and development of speech and language lists, in alphabetical order by author, 423 books and journal articles published between 1937 and 1970. [Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of original document.] (DD)

This paper studies aspects of the conceptual basis for language acquisition, with a focus on the perceptual-cognitive skills used to assign meanings to words. A first assumption is that the correspondence between adult and child perceptual features allows for early communication. Apparently, in the first year, naming is characterized by…