Psychology of Language and Communication
Children's Language and Communicative Knowledge, Part One. In Memory of Professor Grace Wales Shugar, Issue Editor: Barbara Bokus
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Published Online: Aug 28, 2014
Page range: 126 - 142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0010
© by Richard M. Weist
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This paper reviews a body of research that reveals how children acquire the capacity to express the temporal location of episodes that they remember and those they anticipate for the future. The paper shows how the child’s knowledge of language structure provides a window on the conceptual development of memory processes and the capacity for conceptual time travel away from the conversational context of the speech act.