Open AccessLanguage and Play: a Study of the Relationship Between Functions and Structures in the Language of Five Year Old Children
Author(s) -
Cathleen Teece
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
language and speech
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1756-6053
pISSN - 0023-8309
DOI - 10.1177/002383097601900209
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , psychology , linguistics , language development , value (mathematics) , language structure , language acquisition , developmental psychology , relation (database) , mathematics education , social psychology , computer science , philosophy , database , machine learning
The purpose of the study was to consider the value of 'play' activities in the infant school in relation to language development. Linguistic analyses were made of samples of the language of five year old children to determine functional and structural characteristics. Piaget's functional classification was applied together with a transformational analysis. Results confirmed the value of play activities for language development and illustrated the nature of linguistic interaction amoung groups of children. The transformational analysis gave a detailed description of the language sampled.
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