DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmalanguage development
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHalliday (1973)
TitoloExplorations in the functions of language
Sinonimilanguage acquisition (inglese) 
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[...] language acquisition, or rather language development, to revert to the earlier term [...] needs to be seen as the mastery of linguistic functions. Learning one’s mother tongue is learning the uses of language, and the meanings, or rather the meaning potential, associated with them. The structures, the words and the sounds are the realization of this meaning potential. Learning language is learning how to mean.
- Halliday (1973), Pag. 24