Halliday (1975, 2007) divided child language development into three phases: protolanguage, transition and adult language and analyzed the criteria of entry into Phase I and Phase Ⅱ and the functions performed and meanings realized by conducting a case study. Talking about when a child can be said to have entered Phase Ⅲ, Halliday (1975) held: “By the end of Phase Ⅱ, the child has entered the adult language. He has built up a system that is multi-stratal (content, form and expression) and multifunctional (ideational, interpersonal and textual). From this point on, he is adding to what he already has. He has learned how to mean; his language development now consists in extending his range of meaning potential to broader cultural horizons.” Halliday (2007) took dialogue as another important criterion. In order to get a better understanding of the law of child language development, this paper attempts to prove through a case study that interpersonal metaphor, structural completeness and texture should be regarded as the criteria together with multistratification, multifunctionality and dialogicity to judge whether the child has entered Phase Ⅲ.
ZHU Yongsheng
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DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.07.002
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