• 1. The place of language in child development; 2. Determiners and reference; 3. Introduction to the data; 4. Production experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 5. Production experiments: anaphoric function; 6. Production experiments: gender-indicating function of determiners; 7. Comprehension experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 8. Comprehension experiments: anaphoric function of determiners; 9. Synthesis of the child's acquisition of the plurifunctionality of determiners; 10. General implications for language acquisition and child development; Bibliography; Index.

' … a thought provoking book which raises several critical issues about the methodology and findings of research into linguistic and cognitive development … I am sure many will wish to study this book which should be essential reading for those researching into linguistic development.' British Journal of Psychology

• 1. The place of language in child development; 2. Determiners and reference; 3. Introduction to the data; 4. Production experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 5. Production experiments: anaphoric function; 6. Production experiments: gender-indicating function of determiners; 7. Comprehension experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 8. Comprehension experiments: anaphoric function of determiners; 9. Synthesis of the child's acquisition of the plurifunctionality of determiners; 10. General implications for language acquisition and child development; Bibliography; Index.

' … a thought provoking book which raises several critical issues about the methodology and findings of research into linguistic and cognitive development … I am sure many will wish to study this book which should be essential reading for those researching into linguistic development.' British Journal of Psychology

• 1. The place of language in child development; 2. Determiners and reference; 3. Introduction to the data; 4. Production experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 5. Production experiments: anaphoric function; 6. Production experiments: gender-indicating function of determiners; 7. Comprehension experiments: deictic, exophoric and quantifier functions of determiners; 8. Comprehension experiments: anaphoric function of determiners; 9. Synthesis of the child's acquisition of the plurifunctionality of determiners; 10. General implications for language acquisition and child development; Bibliography; Index.

' … a thought provoking book which raises several critical issues about the methodology and findings of research into linguistic and cognitive development … I am sure many will wish to study this book which should be essential reading for those researching into linguistic development.' British Journal of Psychology