| Preface |
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| Foreword to the First Edition |
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| Foreword to the Third Edition |
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The Functions of Language in Two Children of Six |
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1 | (49) |
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5 | (29) |
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An example of the talk taken down |
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6 | (3) |
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The functions of child language classified |
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9 | (2) |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (5) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (7) |
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26 | (1) |
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Commands, requests, threats |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (6) |
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34 | (16) |
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The measure of ego-centrism |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (6) |
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43 | (7) |
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Types and Stages in the Conversation of Children Between the Ages of Four and Seven |
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50 | (26) |
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Check of the coefficient of ego-centrism |
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51 | (1) |
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Types of conversation between children |
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52 | (4) |
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Stage I: Collective monologue |
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56 | (2) |
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Stage IIA, First type: Association with the action of others |
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58 | (2) |
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Stage IIA, Second type: Collaboration in action or in nonabstract thought |
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60 | (5) |
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Stage IIB, First type: Quarrelling |
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65 | (3) |
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Stage IIB, Second type: Primitive argument |
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68 | (2) |
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Stage IIIB: Genuine argument |
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70 | (3) |
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73 | (3) |
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Understanding and Verbal Explanation Between Children of the Same Age Between the Years of Six and Eight |
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76 | (51) |
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79 | (7) |
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Parcelling out the material |
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86 | (8) |
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94 | (5) |
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Ego-centrism in the explanations given by one child to another |
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99 | (8) |
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The ideas of order and cause in the expositions given by the explainers |
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107 | (12) |
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The factors of understanding |
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119 | (5) |
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Conclusion. The question of stages and the effort towards objectivity in the accounts given by children to one another |
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124 | (3) |
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Some Peculiarities of Verbal Understanding in the Child Between the Ages of Nine and Eleven |
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127 | (35) |
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131 | (5) |
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136 | (9) |
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The need for justification at any price |
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145 | (5) |
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Syncretism of understanding |
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150 | (7) |
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157 | (5) |
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The Questions of a Child of Six |
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162 | (77) |
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164 | (35) |
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Principal types of ``whys,'' |
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166 | (5) |
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``Whys of causal explanation.'' Introduction and classification by material |
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171 | (9) |
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Structure of the ``whys of explanation,'' |
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180 | (8) |
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188 | (3) |
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``Whys of justification,'' |
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191 | (6) |
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197 | (2) |
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Questions not expressed under the form ``why'' |
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199 | (18) |
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Classification of Del's questions not expressed under the form, ``why,'' |
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199-8 | (1) |
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Questions of causal explanation |
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202-9 | (1) |
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Questions of reality and history |
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207-10 | (1) |
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Questions about human actions and questions about rules |
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214-11 | (216) |
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Questions of classification and calculation |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (22) |
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217-13 | (1) |
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The decline of precausality |
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223-14 | (227) |
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Conclusion. Categories of thought or logical functions in the child of seven |
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227 | (12) |
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The Measure of Ego-Centric Language in Verbal Communication Between the Adult and the Child and in Verbal Exchanges Between Children |
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239 | (43) |
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Hans' remarks during his fourth year |
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241 | (9) |
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The reactions of three other children |
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250 | (5) |
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The ego-centrism of childish speech |
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255 | (12) |
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The child's intellectual ego-centrism |
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267 | (15) |
| Appendix |
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282 | (5) |
| Index |
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