Pre-dialogue, proto-dialogue and dialogue are described and examples of these in the language development of a Xhosa child are given. Halliday's (1975) description of the emergence of dialogue in an English-speaking child is found to apply well to the emergence of dialogue in a Xhosa-speaking child.
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