A Functional Approach to Child Language: A Study of Determiners and Reference

1. The place of language in child development 2. Determiners and reference 3. Introduction to the data 4. Production experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners 5. Production experiments: anaphoric function 6. Production experiments: gender-indicating function of determiners 7. Comprehension experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners 8. Comprehension experiments: anaphoric function of determiners 9. Synthesis of the child's acquisition of the plurifunctionality of determiners 10. General implications for language acquisition and child development Bibliography Index.