Executive Functions as an Interface in Language Development: Intentional Verbal Resources in Early Stages

Executive Functions as an Interface in Language Development: Intentional Verbal Resources in Early Stages

Milagros Fernández-Pérez, Iván Enríquez Martínez
ISBN13: 9781799890751|ISBN10: 1799890759|EISBN13: 9781799890768
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9075-1.ch006
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Fernández-Pérez, Milagros, and Iván Enríquez Martínez. "Executive Functions as an Interface in Language Development: Intentional Verbal Resources in Early Stages." Handbook of Research on Neurocognitive Development of Executive Functions and Implications for Intervention, edited by Francisco Alcantud-Marín, et al., IGI Global, 2022, pp. 126-154. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9075-1.ch006

APA

Fernández-Pérez, M. & Martínez, I. E. (2022). Executive Functions as an Interface in Language Development: Intentional Verbal Resources in Early Stages. In F. Alcantud-Marín, M. López-Ramón, E. Navarro-Pardo, V. Moreno-Campos, & Y. Alonso-Esteban (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Neurocognitive Development of Executive Functions and Implications for Intervention (pp. 126-154). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9075-1.ch006

Chicago

Fernández-Pérez, Milagros, and Iván Enríquez Martínez. "Executive Functions as an Interface in Language Development: Intentional Verbal Resources in Early Stages." In Handbook of Research on Neurocognitive Development of Executive Functions and Implications for Intervention, edited by Francisco Alcantud-Marín, et al., 126-154. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9075-1.ch006

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Abstract

The main objective of the present study is to highlight which verbal tactics are associated with executive skills in the early stages, and how the emergence and anchoring of formal processes and various structures take place in this process. From the theoretical perspective of construction linguistics, which assumes the value of spontaneous verbal usages and the importance of a bottom-up route, the authors consider the acquisition of Spanish, examining in particular the presence and weight of communicative-interactive resources such as signalling, emphasis, maintenance of conversational threads, narrative voices, and temporal and spatial turns. The more specific aim here is to offer early evidence of such tactics, showing both their evolutionary tendency towards conscious and active interaction and their support in genuine semiotic-structural procedures characteristic of emergent grammar. For this purpose, they look at language production drawn from corpora of children's speech.

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