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	Jun 1999
	ISBN 0262024535
	320 pp.
	32 illus.

How Language Comes to Children

Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies and M. B. DeBevoise

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Table of Contents

		Translator's Notes
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction
1		The Infant Does Not Talk, But...
2		The Emergence of Speech
3		The Communicative Univers of the Baby
4		Discovering the Meaning of Words: Nine to Seventeen Months
5		The First Lexical Steps: Eleven to Eighteen Months
6		To Each Baby His Own Style
7		Languages, Cultures, and Children
8		Speech Becomes Language: Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months
		Conclusion
		Appendix A: The Principle Stages in the Development of Speech from Before Birth to Two Years
		Appendix B: International Phonetic Alphabet
		Notes
		Glossary
		Bibliography
		Index

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