… Communicative developments during the first year do set the stage for language acquisition,
… This question is whether or not the development of prelinguistic communication provides …

… We draw from theorizations of such communication in these … franca English interactions to
develop the multilingual paradigm… develop the multilingual orientation to language acquisition. …

… in language development at follow-up, it is important to keep in mind that the prediction of
language acquisition was to different developmental … assessment and language outcome may …

… of development has not ordinarily been made explicit in theories of language development,
… Following this historical review, the development of language is described in chronological …

… pattern of language acquisition following simultaneous communication. Specifically, two of
the children acquired receptive signing, but not receptive speech;four children acquired both …

… behavior, and how the process of communication changes when children begin to acquire
… base of language acquisition, relying on this social-pragmatic view of language and social …

… /foreign language … for language acquisition is the exposure to ‘comprehensible input’.Footnote2
This view claims that in a developmental process parallel to first language acquisition, …

… of their native language. A striking aspect of phonological development is the vast …
contrasts that will be important for development of their native language, they can say only a …

… for communication (particularly language) and those we use to account for knowledge (see
Bickhard 1980a,b; Silverstein in press, for some recent discussions of this issue). From …

… the variety of patterns of language acquisition and language … of language acquisition but
also stimulate other child language … communication, social activity, and cognitive development, …