Talk:Single Word Utterances/@comment-24947466-20150731181850

Single-Word Communication: A Period of Transitions Haynes, William O. In COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT: FOUNDATIONS, PROCESSES, AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS, Haynes, William O., & Shulman, Brian B. [Eds], Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1998, pp 205-228, Haynes, William O, 1998 Speech & language development are discussed in terms of cognitive & linguistic changes that occur in the transition from babbling to single word  speech & from single word  speech to early multiword utterances. The dynamic, multifaceted nature of this period  of development is emphasized. The roles of babbling, communicative gestures, & prelexical transition utterances in prelinguistic communication & the transition to single words  are addressed. Differences between true words & prelexical utterances are related. The first lexicon comprises specific nominals, general nominals, action words, modifiers, personal-social words, & function words. Explanations for the predominance of nominals in early vocabularies across cultures are considered, & the relationship of cognitive development to first words & the vocabulary spurt is examined. Phenomena that characterize the transition fromsingle words  to early multiword utterances include dummy element productions, dummy form productions, reduplication productions, empty form productions, rate constructions, & vertical constructions. Each of these utterance types is briefly described. The application of knowledge concerning single -word  development to the assessment & treatment of children with language disorders is discussed. 3 Tables, 1 Figure, 84 References. D. Taylor

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