Kosolupenko, D. P. Child’s babble: studying the child’s speech as the presentation of peculiar child’s world perception

Abstract: The article is devoted to the research of the child’s world-perception through attentive and successive study of their speech and play activity. The research covered children from 1.5 to 4 years old who were closely observed and results of the questionnaires answered by the parents of 31 children from 1 years 10 months old to 14 years old (most of children, 17, were 3-4 years old and 6 children were 6-7 years old). The results of the research showed a number of very interesting objective patters. On the whole it is quite obvious that toddlers have the mythopoetical type of world-perception. By the age of 7 this type of perception is usually switched by the analytical one, the latter is being quite specific for an adult.

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