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language acquisition
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......superficial" grammar of a particular language because all intelligible languages...the acquisition of a native language can be measured by the increasing...complexity and originality of a child's utterances. Children at...People learning a second language pass through some of the same......
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name
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......and they often pass from one language to another. Hence the occurrence...names are concatenations of the child's given name and the father...commonplaces such as naming a child after a lucky person or a wily...practices, such as not naming a child after a living relative or changing......
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Piaget, Jean
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......writer, Piaget's writings also include The Child's Conception of the World (tr. 1929), The Moral Judgment of the Child (tr. 1932), The Language and Thought of the Child (tr. of 3d ed. 1962), Genetic Epistemology......
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Greenaway, Kate
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......humorous, delicately colored drawings of child life. She influenced children's clothing...Under the Window (1879), A Day in a Child's Life (1881), Kate Greenaway's Birthday Album, and The Language of Flowers (1885). See The Kate Greenaway......
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Bettelheim, Bruno
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......environments during the first few years of their lives, when language and motor skills were developing. Although his theories on...discredited, he authored a number of influential works on child development, including The Informed Heart (1960), The Empty......
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Jonson, Ben
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......spirited buoyancy of Jonson's plays and the brilliance of his language have earned him a reputation as one of the great playwrights...Marston, who were writing at that time for a rival company of child actors. He collaborated with Chapman and Marston on the comedy......
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Renard, Jules
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......Poil de carotte (1894), an autobiographical novel about an unhappy child, reflects Renard's bitter memories. Both novels were dramatized...literary figures of his day and shows his preoccupation with style and language....
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Strindberg, Johan August
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......1849–1912, Swedish dramatist and novelist. He was a master of the Swedish language and an innovator in dramatic and literary styles. Strindberg was the unwanted fourth child of a once well-to-do father and a mother who had come to his father's......
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ballad
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......character, setting, or moral commentary. It uses simple language, an economy of words, dramatic contrasts, epithets, set phrases...Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802). Francis Child's collection, English and Scottish Popular Ballads (5 vol......
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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......Tuscany. Early Life and WorkMichelangelo drew extensively as a child, and his father placed him under the tutelage...Hirst (vol. 1, 2010); D. Summers, Michelangelo and the Language of Art (1981); R. S. Liebert, Michelangelo: A Psychoanalytic......