| Lemma | functional reduction |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Halliday (1973) |
| Titolo | Explorations in the functions of language |
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| Citazioni | What happens in the course of maturation is a process that we might from one point of view call ʻfunctional reductionʼ, whereby the original functional range of the child’s language – a set of fairly discrete functional components each with its own meaning potential – is gradually replaced by a more highly coded and more abstract, but also simpler, functional system. |