From Concept to Sentence in Children

The book is an empirical study of children's acquisition of written language. At the crossroads of disciplines, this process of conceptualizing the external world is crucial to a child's developing personality. Using tools that are at once psychological, linguistic and constructivist, the booklet modestly clarifies certain specificities of the child's language in the state of genesis, and demonstrates the importance of certain morpho-syntactic deviances, such as erasure and phonetic writing.