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1、JournalofPsyeholinguis~'cResearch,VoL1,No.1,1971PiagetianMeasuresofCognitiveDevelopmentforChildrenuptoAgeTwoAlbertMehrabian1andMartinWilliamsIReceivedMay13,1970ThispaperproposesameasureofcognitivedevelopmentwhichisbasedprimarilyonPiaget'sconcepts.Thechoiceofthepar
2、ticularitemswasdeterminedbytheirassumedrelationtogeneralrepresentationalability,includinglinguisticandnonverbalcommunica-tionabilities.Thepresentapproachisdistinguishedfromthoseofsomelinguistswhosuggestthatachild'searlylinguisticdevelopmentisnotcompatiblewithhisco
3、gnitives~Tlsand,thus,thatachild'sgrammaticalcompetenceimpliestheexistenceofsomeinnatesetofprinciplesforthegenerationoflanguage.Incontrast,thepresentapproachhypothesizesthatachild'scognitiveskillsduringthefirst2years,particularlynonverbalrepresentationalabilities,n
4、otonlyprecedebutenhancehissubsequentacquisitionoflanguage.Theassumptionthattheitemsoftheproposedscaletogethertestacommonabilitywassupportedbyamultidimensionalhomogeneityanalysisofthescale,whichindicatedthatitdefinesanessentiallyunitaryabilitydimensionandalsohasstr
5、ongordinalcharacteristics.INTRODUCTIONSomelinguists(e.g.,Chomsky,1965;Lenneberg,1967;McNeiU,1966)havesuggestedthatchildren'searlylinguisticdevelopmentisnotcompatiblewiththeircognitiveskills,sinceachildof4years,whilenotpossessinganelaboratevocabulary,canexhibitthef
6、ullydevelopedgrammaticalcompetenceofanadult.BasedontheassumptionthatthecognitiveabilityofachilduptotheThisstudywassupportedbyU.S.PublicHealthServiceGrantMH13509.ThisisanupdatedversionofapaperthatwaspresentedattheInternationalDaysofSociolinguistics,1969,Rome,Italy.
7、1UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,California.113114blekrabianandWilliamsageoffourisinsufficienttoaccountforhisgrammaticalcompetence,theseinvestigatorsassertthatthereexistsasetofuniversallysharedandinnateprinciplesforthegenerationofanylanguage(e.g.,Chomsky,1965,pp
8、.30-33).Achildsimplylearnstoselectoneofthesegrammarswhichbestfitsthelinguisticdatatowhichheisexposed.Inbrief,theirregularlinguisticdataineachchild'ssoci
