Playing with a dolls' house and dolls is a kind of game following certain rules where language is used in certain specific ways, i.e, you set the scene, plan a story and then act out a play, now acting as a story-teller, now playing the parts of the dolls, lending them your voice. This complicated linguistic task is not mastered by a child until somewhere between 3 and 4 years of age at the very earliest.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Jorup, B.Lekens pedagogiska möjligheter (With an English summary: The Educational Potentials of Play. An Analysis of Children's Play in Day-care Centres from the Point of View of Piaget's Theory. (Stockholm University: Department of Education, 1979)
2.
Lange, S. and Larsson, K.Studier i det tidiga barnsprakets grammatik (With an English summary: Studies in Early Child Grammar (Stockholm University: Department of Scandinavian Languages, Project Child Language Syntax, 1977)
3.
Larsson K.A Preliminary Grammatical Analysis of the Speech of Tor Aged 20-43 Months . Volumes 1 and 2 (in Swedish). (Stockholm University: Department of Scandinavian Languages, Project Child Language Syntax, 1975, 1977)
4.
Piaget J.Play, Dreams and Imitation (Northon Library, U.S.A., 1962)
5.
Stromqvist, S.Perspectives on a speech act performed by 19 three-year-olds (RUUL 6, Uppsala University: Department of Linguistics, 1980)
6.
Söderbergh, R.Project Child Language Syntax and Project EarlyReading (Stockholm University: Department of Scandinavian Languages, Project Child Language Syntax, 1973)
