1 Starting to talk 1
Preface by Halliday 6
王宗炎序 7
2 Finding out what words mean 7
导读 10
3 Building up a dictionary 14
4 Putting together sentences 22
Using this book 24
Acknowledgements 26
5 Building longer sentences 29
6 Saying No and asking questions 37
7 Becoming a work maker 46
8 Having a conversation 54
9 Learning to get the sounds right 61
10 Still learning: Dogs and Gogs 68
11 Exploring Children s language: projects 75
12 Going on from here: central issues and study questions 85
Further reading 89
Corpus of chlld-language data 94
Answers to further exercises 106
Index 114
文库索引 117